Dumi language
| Dumi | |
|---|---|
| Region | Khotang district, Nepal |
Native speakers | 7,600 (2011 census)[1] |
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Sino-Tibetan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
dus |
| Glottolog |
dumi1241[2] |
Dumi is a Kiranti language spoken in the area around the Tap and Rava rivers and their confluence in northern Khotang district, Nepal. It is spoken in the VDC's of Makpa, Jalapa, Baksila, Sapteshwor, and Kharmi (Ethnologue).
Dialects are Kharbari, Lamdija, and Makpa, with Makpa being the most divergent dialect (Ethnologue).
References
- ↑ Dumi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dumi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- van Driem, George. 1988. 'The verbal morphology of Dumi Rai simplicia', Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 11 (1): 134-207.
- van Driem, George. 1989. 'Reflexes of the Tibeto-Burman *⟨-t⟩ directive suffix in Dumi Rai', pp. 157–167 in David Bradley, Eugénie Henderson and Martine Mazaudon, eds., Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics: To Honour R.K. Sprigg. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- van Driem, George. 1993. A Grammar of Dumi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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