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Lunana dialect

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Native to
  
Writing system
  
Tibetan

Native speakers
  
700 (1998)

ISO 639-3
  
luk

Language family
  
Sino-TibetanTibeto-Kanauri ?BodishTibeticSouthernDzonkhaLunana

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. Lunana is a variety of Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan.

References

Lunana dialect Wikipedia


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