between 2008[2] and 2012[1] with the death of Soma Devi Dura
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Greater Magaric
Dura–Tandrange
Dura
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ISO 639-3
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Dura is an extinct language of Nepal. It has been classified in the West Bodish branch of Tibetan languages, though more recent work separates it out as an independent branch of Sino-Tibetan.[3] Many of the Dura have switched to speaking Nepali, and the Dura language has sometimes been thought to be extinct. Some of the people who have switched to Nepali for their daily speech still use Dura for prayer.[4]
The Himalayan Languages Project is working on recording additional knowledge of Dura.[5] Around 1,500 words and 250 sentences in Dura have been recorded. The last known speaker of the language was the 82-year-old Soma Devi Dura.[2]
^ abDura at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ab"The last of Nepal's Dura speakers". BBC News. January 15, 2008.
^Kraayenbrink et al., "Language and Genes of the Greater Himalayan Region", preprint, http://www.le.ac.uk/genetics/maj4/Himalayan_OMLLreport.pdf Archived 2022-10-12 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved September 12, 2007
^Van Driem, George. Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region, Brill Academic Publishers 2002 (ISBN 978-9004103900)
^Programme Description | Himalayan Languages Project Archived 2007-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
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