Indian, i.e., Native American, in Tibetan

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Indian, i.e., Native American, in Tibetan

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Does anyone know how Tibetans say India/Native American in Tibetan?
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Didn't get any responses here. Below is a response from a Tibetan friend:

ཨ་རིའི་གདོད་མའི་མི་རིགས་ཨིན་ཏེ་ཨན།

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pemachophel wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:18 pm Didn't get any responses here. Below is a response from a Tibetan friend:

ཨ་རིའི་གདོད་མའི་མི་རིགས་ཨིན་ཏེ་ཨན།

En-te-en
I'd be interested in the etymology....is it literally just tibetan-ized "In-dee-in"?
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Re: Indian, i.e., Native American, in Tibetan

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I don't know in Tibetan, but I do know that in English some Tibetans refer to American Indians as 'aboriginals.'

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ཨ་རིའི་ (of) America

གདོད་མ་ original, in early time; often: primordial

གདོད་མའི་མི་རིགས་ indigenous people, aboriginals, lit. original race/caste/kind of people

ཨིན་ཏེ་ཨན། Indian (Een-dee-en)

ཨ་རིའི་གདོད་མའི་མི་རིགས་ཨིན་ཏེ་ཨན། America's indigenous people, the Indians.
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