Bahing (also known as Rumdali) is a language spoken by 2,765 people of the Bahing ethnic group in the Okhaldhunga district of Nepal and belongs to the family of Kiranti languages, a subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. The Bahing language was described by Brian Houghton Hodgson 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.

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  • Bahing (also known as Rumdali) is a language spoken by 2,765 people of the Bahing ethnic group in the Okhaldhunga district of Nepal and belongs to the family of Kiranti languages, a subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. The Bahing language was described by Brian Houghton Hodgson 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] "monkey" vs. [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.
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  • Bahing
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  • 2,765 in Nepal (2001 census)
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  • Bahing (also known as Rumdali) is a language spoken by 2,765 people of the Bahing ethnic group in the Okhaldhunga district of Nepal and belongs to the family of Kiranti languages, a subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. The Bahing language was described by Brian Houghton Hodgson 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.
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  • Bahing language
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  • Bahing
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