Lunana dialect
| Lunana | |
|---|---|
| ལུང་ནག་ན་ཁ་ | |
| Native to | Bhutan |
| Region | Lunana Gewog, Gasa District |
Native speakers | 700 (1998)[1] |
| Tibetan | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
luk |
| Glottolog |
luna1243[2] |
The Lunana language, Lunanakha (Dzongkha: ལུང་ནག་ན་ཁ་; Wylie: lung-nag-na-kha) is a Tibetic language spoken in Bhutan (Lunana Gewog, Gasa District) by some 700 people in 1998. Most are yak-herding pastoralists.[3] Lunana is a variety of Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan.[4]
See also
- Lunana Gewog
- Lunana village
- Languages of Bhutan
References
- ↑ Lunana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lunanakha". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). Layakha. Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16 (online) ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
- ↑ van Driem, George; Tshering, Karma (1998). Dzongkha. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. 1. Research CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies. p. 1. ISBN 90-5789-002-X. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
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