Dumi language

Dumi
Region	Khotang district, Nepal
Native speakers	7,600 (2011 census)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Mahakiranti ? Kiranti Western Upper Dudhkosi Dumi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dus
Glottolog	dumi1241
ELP	Dumi

Dumii which is a Kiranti language spoken in the area around the Tap and Rava rivers and their confluence in northern Khotang district, Nepal. It is spoken in the villages such as Makpa, Kharbari, Baksila, Sapteshwor, and Kharmi (Ethnologue).

Dialects are Kharbari, Lamdija, and Makpa, with Makpa being the most divergent dialect (Ethnologue).

It is one of the rarest and least spoken languages in the world, with only 8 counted speakers of it in a 2007 study

Phonology

	Front	Central	Back
High	i/iː	ɨ	u/u:
Mid	e/e:		o/o:
Mid-low	œ	ə
Low		a/a:

The colon after a vowel means that it is a long vowel.

Diphthongs	e:j	əj	oj	o:ə	ai

		Labial	Dental	Lamino-alveolopalatal	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m			n		ŋ
Plosive	unaspirated	p  b	t̪ d̪		t  d		k  ɡ	ʔ
	aspirated	pʰ bʰ	t̪ʰ d̪ʰ		tʰ dʰ		kʰ ɡʰ
Affricate				dz
Fricative					s			h
Trill					r
Approximant					l	j

Other Symbols
Voiced Labial-Velar Approximant	w

External links

• Himalayan Languages Project
• Jalapa, Nepal