Lunana dialect

The Lunana language, Lunanakha (Dzongkha: ལུང་ནག་ན་ཁ་; Wylie: lung-nag-na-kha) is a Tibetic language spoken in Bhutan (Lunana Gewog, Gasa District) by some 700 people in 1998. Most are yak-herding pastoralists.[2] Lunana is a variety of Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan.[3]

Lunana
ལུང་ནག་ན་ཁ་
Native toBhutan
RegionLunana Gewog, Gasa District
Native speakers
700 (1998)[1]
Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3luk
Glottologluna1243

See also

References
  1. Lunana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). Layakha. Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16 (online) ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
  3. van Driem, George; Tshering, Karma (1998). Dzongkha. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. 1. Research CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies. p. 1. ISBN 90-5789-002-X. Retrieved 2011-09-27.


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