Lunana dialect explained

Lunana
Nativename:	ལུང་ནག་ན་ཁ་
States:	Bhutan
Region:	Lunana Gewog, Gasa District
Speakers:	700
Date:	1998
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam3:	Tibeto-Kanauri (?)
Fam4:	Bodish
Fam5:	Tibetic
Fam6:	Dzongkha–Lhokä
Fam7:	Dzongkha
Iso3:	luk
Glotto:	luna1243
Glottorefname:	Lunanakha
Script:	Tibetan

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.^[1] Lunana is a variety of Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan.^[2]

See also

• Lunana Gewog
• Lunana village
• Languages of Bhutan

Notes and References

1. Book: Layakha . . Ethnologue

   Languages of the World

   . Lewis, M. Paul . 2009 . 16 (online) . . 2011-09-26.
2. Book: Dzongkha . 1 . Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region . George . van Driem . Karma . Tshering . Research CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies . 1998 . 90-5789-002-X . 1 . 2011-09-27.