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|name=Dumi
|name=Dumi
|region=[[Khotang district]], [[Nepal]]
|region=[[Khotang district]], [[Nepal]]
|extinct=beginning of the 21st century
|speakers=3
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam1=[[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]]
|fam1=[[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]]
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'''Dumi''' is a nearly extinct [[Kiranti languages|Kiranti language]] spoken in the area around the Tap and Rava rivers and their confluence in [[Khotang district]], [[Nepal]]
'''Dumi''' is an extinct [[Kiranti languages|Kiranti language]] once spoken in the area around the Tap and Rava rivers and their confluence in [[Khotang district]], [[Nepal]]. It died out in the beginning of the 21st century.


==External links==
==External links==
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*van Driem, George. 1988. 'The verbal morphology of Dumi Rai simplicia', Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 11 (1): 134-207.
*van Driem, George. 1988. 'The verbal morphology of Dumi Rai simplicia', Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 11 (1): 134-207.
*van Driem, George. 1989. 'Reflexes of the Tibeto-Burman *<-t> directive suffix in Dumi Rai', pp. 157-167 in David Bradley, Eugénie Henderson and Martine Mazaudon, eds., Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics: To Honour R.K. Sprigg. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
*van Driem, George. 1989. 'Reflexes of the Tibeto-Burman *<-t> directive suffix in Dumi Rai', pp. 157-167 in David Bradley, Eugénie Henderson and Martine Mazaudon, eds., Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics: To Honour R.K. Sprigg. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
*van Driem, George. 1993c. A Grammar of Dumi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
*van Driem, George. 1993. A Grammar of Dumi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.


[[Category:Extrinct languages]]
[[Category:Tibeto-Burman languages]]
[[Category:Tibeto-Burman languages]]
[[Category:Kiranti]]
[[Category:Kiranti]]

[[br:Doumeg]]
[[br:Doumeg]]

Revision as of 13:52, 4 July 2008

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Dumi is an extinct Kiranti language once spoken in the area around the Tap and Rava rivers and their confluence in Khotang district, Nepal. It died out in the beginning of the 21st century.

References

  • van Driem, George. 1988. 'The verbal morphology of Dumi Rai simplicia', Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 11 (1): 134-207.
  • van Driem, George. 1989. 'Reflexes of the Tibeto-Burman *<-t> directive suffix in Dumi Rai', pp. 157-167 in David Bradley, Eugénie Henderson and Martine Mazaudon, eds., Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics: To Honour R.K. Sprigg. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • van Driem, George. 1993. A Grammar of Dumi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.