Tibetic language spoken in China, Bhutan and India
Groma
Tromowa
Native to
China, Bhutan and India
Region
Chumbi Valley region between Sikkim and Bhutan
Native speakers
(27,000 cited 1993–2007)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Kanauri ?
Bodish
Tibetic
Dzongkha–Lhokä
Groma
Language codes
ISO 639-3
gro
Glottolog
grom1238
Groma, also known as Tromowa and J'umowa, is a language spoken primarily in the lower Chumbi Valley in Tibet, with some speakers in Sikkim in India.[2] It belongs to the southern group of Tibetan languages. Its speakers identify as Tibetans.
^Groma at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^van Driem, George (2015), "Endangered Languages of South Asia", in Matthias Brenzinger (ed.), Language Diversity Endangered, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, p. 312, ISBN 9783110905694
Groma, also known as Tromowa and J'umowa, is a language spoken primarily in the lower Chumbi Valley in Tibet, with some speakers in Sikkim in India. It...
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its own highly stylized Lepcha script. The Sikkimese and Gromalanguages, both Tibetan languages, are spoken along the Sikkim-Bhutan and Tibet-Bhutan borders...
believes that Arindal will not fulfil even with the help of the magician Groma. Nevertheless, they get the other fairies and spirits to pledge their help...
a lot"), od cholery i ciut ciut ("hell of a lot and a little"), and od groma (lit. "from a thunder"). Vulgar terms include w kurwę and od chuja. For...
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by horns." Alternatively, the symbol may represent a device similar to a groma. The famous 24th century BC Palermo Stone has multiple uses of Seshat's...
ancient Verecunda, including two triumphal arches. Mosaic at Lambaesis Groma, gate to the principia Amphitheatre at Lambaesis Ruins at Tazoult Roman...
land to his left. He then traced the grid using an instrument known as a groma, tracing two road axes perpendicular to each other: the first, generally...
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The grammar of the Slovincian language is characterized by a high degree of inflection, a lack of articles, and vowel, consonant, and stress alternations...
metres (6.6 ft). To use the groma sights could be set onto a second groma a distance away from the first, then two more gromas were positioned the same distance...
especially the water level or chorobates, which he compared favourably with the groma, a device using plumb lines. They were essential in all building operations...
English is also spoken and understood in most of Sikkim. Other languages include Dzongkha, Groma, Hindi, Majhi, Majhwar, Thulung, Tibetan, and Yakha. The majority...
groma which helped with the measurement of right angles. However, the mensor and the legionaries were not always experts so the accuracy of the groma...
measuring rods called decempedae ("10-footers") and gromatici who used a groma, a sighting device consisting of a vertical staff with horizontal cross...
been impossible without their amazing network of roads. — Adam Hart-Davis Groma surveying, demonstrated by Hart-Davis, allowed the surveying of perfectly...
results of the theodolite. Prior to the theodolite, instruments such as the groma, geometric square and the dioptra, and various other graduated circles (see...
by a metal shoe, and painted in alternating colours. Together with the groma and dioptra, the decempeda formed the basic kit for the Roman surveyors...
which dates to the sixteenth century. It is a more accurate version of the groma. There is some speculation that it may have been used to build the Eupalinian...