Gongduk language
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| Gongduk | |
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| དགོང་འདུས་ | |
| Region | Bhutan |
Native speakers | 2,000 (2006)[1] |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | goe |
Gongduk or Gongdu (Tibetan: དགོང་འདུས་, Wylie: Dgong-'dus ) is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken by about 1,000 people in a few inaccessible villages located near the Kuri Chhu river in the Gongdu Gewog of Mongar District in eastern Bhutan. The language appears to be the sole representative of a unique branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family [2] and retains the complex verbal agreement system of Proto-Tibeto-Burman.[3]
Currently, George van Driem is working towards the completion of a description of Gongduk based on his work with native speakers in the Gongduk area.[2]
References
- ↑ Gongduk reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Himalayan Languages Project. "Gongduk". Himalayan Languages Project. Retrieved 2009-11-06.
- ↑ Ethnologue. "Gongduk: A language of Bhutan". SIL. Retrieved 2009-11-06.
Sources
- Dzongkha Development Authority; Dasho Sangay Dorji, Col. Wangdi Tshering, Namgay Thinley, Gyembo Dorji, Phuntsho Wangdi, Lekyi Tshering, Sangay Phuntsho (2005). དགོང་འདུས་རྫོང་ཁ་ཨིན་སྐད་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག་མཛོད། (Gongduk-Dzongkha-English Dictionary). Thimphu: Dzongkha Development Authority. p. 115. ISBN 99936-663-1-9.
- van Driem, George L; Karma Tshering of Gaselô (collab) (1998). Dzongkha. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Leiden: Research School CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies. pp. 32–33. ISBN 90-5789-002-X.
- van Driem, George L (2007). "Endangered languages of Bhutan and Sikkim". In Brenzinger, Matthias. Language diversity endangered. Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 314–15. ISBN 3-11-017050-7.
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