Gongduk language
| Gongduk | |
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| Gongdukpa Ang དགོང་འདུས་ |
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| Region | Bhutan |
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Native speakers
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2,000 (2006)[1] |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | goe |
| Glottolog | gong1251[2] |
Gongduk or Gongdu (Tibetan: དགོང་འདུས་, Wylie: Dgong-'dus) is an endangered Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 1,000 people in a few inaccessible villages located near the Kuri Chhu river in the Gongdue Gewog of Mongar District in eastern Bhutan. It has complex verbal morphology, which Ethnologue considers a retention from Proto-Tibeto-Burman,[1] and is lexically highly divergent.[3] On this basis, it is apparently not part of any major subgroup and will probably have to be assigned to its own branch.[3][4]
Currently, George van Driem is working towards the completion of a description of Gongduk based on his work with native speakers in the Gongduk area.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gongduk at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Blench, R. & Post, M. W. (2013). Rethinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of Northeast Indian languages
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