Groma language

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Chomo
Tromo, Chumbi
Chomowa, D˚romowa
Native toChina, Bhutan and India
RegionChumbi Valley region between Sikkim and Bhutan
Native speakers
(27,000 cited 1993–2007)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3gro
Glottologgrom1238[2]

Chomo (ZYPY), also Chumbi or D˚romo (Roman Dzongkha), is a language spoken in Chomo (Yadong) County, Tibet, China. It is also spoken in Sikkim, India. It belongs to the southern group of Tibetan languages. Its speakers identify as Tibetans.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Chomo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Groma". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.