Dungmali language

Dungmali
Arthare
Native to Nepal
Region Koshi Zone
Ethnicity 10,000 Kiranti people (2011 census?)[1]
Native speakers
6,300 (2011 census)[2]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 raa
Glottolog dung1252[3]

Dungmali, or Dungmali-Bantawa, is a Kiranti language spoken in Nepal. It is largely cognate with Bantawa, but differs grammatically and phonologically.

Locations

Dungmali is spoken in eastern Bhojpur District, Kosi Zone, in Thulo Dumba, Sano Dumba, and Bastim VDC's (Ethnologue). The Dungmali area extends all the way east to the Arun River.

References

  1. Dungmali language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. Dungmali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dungmali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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