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Bahing (also known as Rumdali) is a language spoken by 2,765 people (2001 census) of the Bahing ethnic group in the Okhaldhunga
district of Nepal. It belongs to the family of Kiranti languages, a subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. The Bahing language was described
by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1857, 1858) as having a very complex verbal morphology. By the 1970s, only vestiges were left,
making Bahing a case study of grammatical attrition and language death. Bahing and the related Khaling language have synchronic
ten-vowel systems. The difference of [mərə mərə] monkey vs. [mɯrɯ mɯrɯ] man is difficult to perceive for speakers of even
neighboring dialects, which makes for an unlimited source of fun to the Bahing people. Hodgson (1857) reported a middle voice
formed by a suffix -s(i) added to the verbal stem, corresponding to reflexives in other Kiranti languages. |
Names (more)[br] Bahingeg[en] Bahing language [hr] Bahing jezik [th] ภาษาบาฮิง |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : bhjLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bhjhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:bhj More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: bhjFreebase ISO 639-3 : bhj GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |