Tilung language

Tilung
Native to Nepal
Region Sagarmatha Zone
Native speakers
1,400 (2011 census)[1]
Dialects
Choskule
Dorungkecha
Tilung proper
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tij
Glottolog tilu1238[2]

Tilung is a moribund Kiranti language spoken in Nepal. It is mutually intelligible with Wambule. The Choskule and Dorungkecha "dialects" may actually be related languages.[1]

Locations

Tilung is spoken in Chyasmitar VDC, southern Khotang District, Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal (Ethnologue). It is located on the ranks of the Sunkosi River bank, on the last ridge of the Halesi Range.

References

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


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