Dumi language

Dumi
Region Khotang district, Nepal
Native speakers
7,600 (2011 census)[1]
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

  1. Dumi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dumi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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