Dumi language
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| Dumi | |
|---|---|
| Region | Khotang district, Nepal |
| Ethnicity | Dumi Rai |
Native speakers | 7,600 (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. It is spoken in the villages such as Makpa, Kharbari, Baksila, Sapteshwor, and Kharmi (Ethnologue).
Dialects are Kharbari, Lamdija, and Makpa, with Makpa being the most divergent dialect (Ethnologue).
Phonology[edit]
| Labial | Dental | Lamino-
alveolopalatal |
Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||||
| Plosive | unaspirated | p b | t̪ d̪ | t d | k ɡ | ʔ | |||
| aspirated | pʰ bʰ | t̪ʰ d̪ʰ | tʰ dʰ | kʰ ɡʰ | |||||
| Affricate | dz | ||||||||
| Fricative | s | h | |||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short | Long | Short | Long | Short | Long | |
| High | i | iː | ɨ | u | u: | |
| Mid | e | e: | o | o: | ||
| Mid-low | œ | ə | ||||
| Low | a | a: | ||||
| Diphthongs | e:j əj | ai | o:ə oj | |||
References[edit]
- ^ Dumi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Driem, George van (2011-07-22). A Grammar of Dumi. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110880915.
External links[edit]
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