Bantawa language

Bantawa language

The Bantawa language is an endangered language group. It is a Tibeto-Burman language, Eastern Kiranti languages family,cite web |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_lang_family.asp?code=BAP |title=Linguistic Lineage for BANTAWA |accessdate=2007-09-12] spoken in the eastern Himalayan hills of eastern Nepal by Rai ethnic groups.Bantawa speaking Population estimates vary between 20,000-60,000, though 35,000 speakers may be a more accurate count. It is experiencing Nepali language shift.

Dialects

* Northern Bantawa (Dilpali)::"Northern subdialects: Rungchenbung and Yangma"
* Southern Bantawa (Hatuwali, Hangkhim)::"Southern and Northern Bantawa, similar, could be united as 'Intermediate Bantawa'."
* Eastern Bantawa (Dhankuta)::". Eastern dialect is the most divergent. It is most closely related to Dungmali language, though also related to Puma language, Sampang language, and Chhintange language.
* Western Bantawa (Amchoke, Amchauke)::"Amchaucke dialects: Sorung and Saharaja"
*Wana Bantawa (also called simply Bantawa), spoken by the Bantawa subcaste

Bantawa is also reportedly in use as a "lingua franca" among Rai minorities in Himalayan India and Bhutan.

While the language is just being introduced in a few schools at the primary level (Year 1- Year 5) cite web |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=gdqy7PKHUXQC&pg=PA341&lpg=PA341&dq=bantawa&source=web&ots=t8NCdqoPu4&sig=p-AQWzKuVWnWxnzKUyysQIH5pmA |title=Morphosyntactic transparency in Bantawa |author=Jadranka Gvozdanovic |accessdate=2007-09-12 |format=.pdf |work=Himalyan Languages: Past and Present, by Anju Saxena] using Devanagari script.cite web |url=http://kcm.co.kr/bethany_eng/p_code1/2040.html |title=The Bantawa Rai of Nepal |accessdate=2007-09-12] cite web |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bap |title=Bantawa, A language of Nepal |accessdate=2007-09-12]

References

Further reading

* Winter, Werner. 2003. "A Bantawa Dictionary". Trends in Linguistics - Documentation 20. Mouten de Gruyter: New York.

External links

[http://robbie.eugraph.com/bantawa/report.html Bantawa: observations of a threatened language]


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