| Dumi | |
|---|---|
| Region | Khotang district, Nepal |
| Ethnicity | Dumi kirat. Ethnic population: 7,640 (2011 census)[1] |
| Speakers | Native: 2,500 (2017)[1] L2: 1,000 (2011 census)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dus |
| Glottolog | dumi1241 |
| ELP | Dumi |
Dumi is a Kiranti language spoken in the area around the Tap and Rava rivers and their confluence in northern Khotang district, Nepal.[1] It is spoken in the villages such as Makpa, Kharbari, Baksila, Sapteshwor, and Kharmi.[citation needed]
Dialects are Kharbari, Lamdija, and Makpa, with Makpa being the most divergent dialect.[1]
Phonology[edit]
| Labial | Dental | Lamino- alveolopalatal |
Alveolar | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t̪ | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiceless aspirated | pʰ | t̪ʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
| voiced | b | d̪ | dz | d | ɡ | ||
| voiced aspirated | bʱ | d̪ʰ | dʱ | ɡʱ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | |||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short | Long | Short | Long | Short | Long | |
| High | i | iː | ɨ | u | uː | |
| Mid | e | eː | o | oː | ||
| Mid-low | œ | ə | ||||
| Low | a | aː | ||||
| Diphthongs | əj | e:j | ai | oj | o:ə | |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Dumi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Driem, George van (2011-07-22). A Grammar of Dumi. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110880915.
External links[edit]
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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| Proposed groupings | |||||
| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
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