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 1,700 people in 1998. Most are yak -herding pastoralists.[3] Lunana is a variety of Dzongkha , the national language of Bhutan.[4]
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References
^ Lunana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lunanakha" . Glottolog . Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
^ Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). Layakha . Ethnologue : Languages of the World (16 (online) ed.) (Dallas, Texas : SIL International ). Retrieved 2011-09-26 .
^ 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 .