Wiktionary:About Garo

Garo (ISO code ) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken mainly in the Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, India. It is also spoken in some parts of Bangladesh.

Creating Garo entries
You may also create entries for phrases, though there should be no punctation and unproper capitalisation. Adding multiword terms such as is encouraged.

Entry name formats
Script - Main entries should be in the Latin script, as the Bengali script is used less frequently. Bengali script terms may refer to the Latin spelling and vice versa Raka - The glottal stop in Garo is represented by an alphabet called the "Raka". The Raka should always be included in an entry if needed and it should be represented by the interpunct (·). Capitalisation - Like many entries for most other languages, the entry term should be uncapitalised unless a proper noun, since the capitalised form is just a different form of the more common uncapitalised one. Affixes - If the entry word or phrase is commonly affixed to other words, put a hyphen (-) onto the start if it is a prefix (e.g -ko), or at the end if a suffix (e.g jak-). Put hyphens to both sides if the term can function as both (e.g -do-). Furthermore, classifiers should also have hyphens (e.g pak-), yet still be in the classifier category. Lemmas - Noun lemma entries should be given in their nominative form, whilst verb lemmas should be in the Garo present tense. Since there are no true adjectives in Garo, and adjectives are made by nominalising verbs, adjectives should not have its own category.

Basic requirements
The simplest entry should include these elements:


 * 1) Language header - This will let the audience know that the language this term comes from is Garo:  . See Help:How to edit a page for some basic terminology we use. When there is more than one language header on a page, the language headers should appear in alphabetical order with Translingual and English given priority. The language name should not be A·chik (the native word for Garo) or anything similar.
 * 2) Part of Speech header - This indicates the key descriptor for the grammatical function of the term in question (such as 'noun', 'verb', etc). The definitions themselves come within its scope. This heading is most frequently in a level three heading, and a page may have more than one for a single language.
 * 3) Headword-line - This is the next line immediately after the part of speech header. In the simplest entries, this will be  . If there are different synonyms for different dialects of a term, the   template should be used.
 * 4) Definitions or Translations - This appears as a numbered list, where it explains the meaning of the term in English in the part of speech section immediately following the headword line, though it is a good idea to include a blank line in between for ease of editing.
 * 5) Conjugation - If the Garo term is an irregular verb, the template   should be used to display the conjugations for the verb in Garo's three main tenses.

Example
This is a simple entry for the word achak, and shows the most fundamental elements of an article:
 * 1) the word’s language (as a level 2 heading),
 * 2) its part of speech or "type" (as a level 3 heading),
 * 3) the word itself (using the correct Part of Speech template),
 * 4) a definition (preceded by "#", which causes automatic numbering),
 * 5) and links in the definition or translation for key words.

This example can be copied and used to start an article or section of an article.

Noun

 * 1) dog

Etymology
Garo's direct ancestors include Proto-Bodo-Garo and Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is also worth realizing that Garo has a plethora of (East) Bengali and/or Assamese  loanwords.

Appendix:Proto-Bodo-Garo reconstructions lists a few useful reconstructions in the Proto-Bodo-Garo language.

Since Garo is a highly agglutinative language, most words may originate from other words/morpheme, and may not be inherited or borrowed. The etymology of these words must follow the format, or something similar. If the full etymology is not known, the known morphemes must be included, and the etymology must be followed by.

To enter etymologies for non-agglutinated words, either, , and  may be used, depending on the template's function.

Pronounciation
If you are sure about how a Garo term is pronounced, you are free to add a pronunciation subheading with the IPA rendering of that term. Appendix:Garo pronounciation lists a few rules for transliterating terms to IPA. For example, for the term, the Pronunciation section would be the following: