Lunana language

Lunanakha
ལུང་ནག་ན་ཁ་
Spoken in  Bhutan Bhutan
Region Lunana Gewog, Gasa District
Native speakers 1,700  (1998)
Language family
Writing system Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 luk

Lunanakha (Dzongkha: ལུང་ནག་ན་ཁ་; Wylie: lung-nag-na-kha) is a Tibetan language spoken in Bhutan (Lunana Gewog, Gasa District) by some 1,700 people as of 1998. Most are yak-herding pastoralists.[1] Lunanakha is closely related to Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan.[2]

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References

  1. ^ Lewis, M. Paul, ed (2009). Layakha (16 (online) ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lya. Retrieved 2011-09-26. 
  2. ^ 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 905789002X. http://books.google.com/books?id=fiwOAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved 2011-09-27.