Dumi language

E572261

Dumi language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Dumi people in eastern Nepal.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Dumi language canonical 9

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kiranti language ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan language ⓘ
language ⓘ
alternativeName Dumi Bo’o ⓘ
Dumi Bo’ong ⓘ
Dumi Bo’oŋ ⓘ
Dumi Kha ⓘ
linked to: Dumi Bo’o

Lsi Rai ⓘ
Ro’ong ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
country Nepal ⓘ
endangermentCause language shift to Nepali ⓘ
ethnicGroup Dumi people ⓘ
family Sino-Tibetan language family ⓘ
hasDialects several local varieties in eastern Nepal ⓘ
ISO639-3 dus ⓘ
languageStatus endangered language ⓘ
linguisticClassification Sino-Tibetan → Tibeto-Burman → Kiranti → Southern Kiranti (approximate) ⓘ
morphology verb-final with complex verbal morphology (approximate) ⓘ
neighboringLanguages other Kiranti languages of eastern Nepal ⓘ
phonology contrastive tone not generally reported (approximate) ⓘ
primaryUse oral communication ⓘ
region eastern Nepal ⓘ
scriptUsage Devanagari used in educational and religious contexts (approximate) ⓘ
spokenBy Dumi people ⓘ
subfamily Kiranti ⓘ
typology agglutinative language ⓘ
writingSystem Devanagari script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kiranti languages → hasMember → Dumi language ⓘ
Bantawa language → closelyRelatedTo → Dumi language ⓘ
Thulung language → closelyRelatedTo → Dumi language ⓘ
Mewahang language → closelyRelatedTo → Dumi language ⓘ
Rai peoples → hasLanguage → Dumi language ⓘ
Rai languages → hasLanguage → Dumi language ⓘ
Dumi Rai → hasLanguage → Dumi language ⓘ
Dumi Rai → speaks → Dumi language ⓘ