Lunana dialect

{{Short description|Language spoken in Bhutan}}

{{Infobox language

|name = Lunana

|nativename = {{lang|luk|ལུང་ནག་ན་ཁ་}}

|states = Bhutan

|region = Lunana Gewog, Gasa District

|speakers = 700

|date = 1998

|ref=e18

|familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Tibeto-Burman

|fam3=Tibeto-Kanauri (?)

|fam4=Bodish

|fam5=Tibetic

|fam6=Dzongkha–Lhokä

|fam7=Dzongkha

|iso3 = luk

|glotto=luna1243

|glottorefname=Lunanakha

|script = Tibetan

}}

The Lunana language, Lunanakha (Dzongkha: ལུང་ནག་ན་ཁ་; Wylie: lung-nag-na-kha) is a Tibetic language spoken in Bhutan (Lunana Gewog, Gasa District) by some 700 people in 1998. Most are yak-herding pastoralists.{{cite book|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lya |title=Layakha |publisher=SIL International |work=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |editor=Lewis, M. Paul |year=2009 |edition=16 (online) |location=Dallas, Texas |access-date=2011-09-26}} Lunana is a variety of Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan.{{cite book|title=Dzongkha |volume=1 |series=Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region |first1=George |last1=van Driem |first2=Karma |last2=Tshering |publisher=Research CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies |year=1998 |isbn=90-5789-002-X |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fiwOAAAAYAAJ |access-date=2011-09-27}}