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 to	Bhutan
Region	Lunana Gewog, Gasa District
Native speakers	(700 cited 1998)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri (?) Bodish Tibetic Dzongkha–Lhokä Dzongkha Lunana
Writing system	Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	luk
Glottolog	luna1243

See also

• Lunana Gewog
• Lunana village
• Languages of Bhutan

References

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