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Laya dialect

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Laya
ལ་ཡ་ཁ་, layakha
Native to	Bhutan
Region	Laya Gewog, Gasa District; northern Punakha District; Lingzhi Gewog, Thimphu District
Ethnicity	Layap
Native speakers	1,100 (2003)^[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri (?) Bodish Tibetic Dzongkha–Lhokä Dzongkha Laya
Writing system	Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`lya`
Glottolog	`laya1253`

Laya (Dzongkha: ལ་ཡ་ཁ་, ལ་ཡག་ཁ་; Wylie: la-ya-kha, la-yag-kha)^[2] is a Tibetic variety spoken by indigenous Layaps inhabiting the high mountains of northwest Bhutan in the village of Laya, Gasa District. Speakers also inhabit the northern regions of Thimphu (Lingzhi Gewog) and Punakha Districts. Its speakers are ethnically related to the Tibetans. Most speakers live at an altitude of 3,850 metres (12,630 ft), just below the Tsendagang peak. Laya speakers are also called Bjop by the Bhutanese, sometimes considered a condescending term. There were 1,100 speakers of Laya in 2003.^[3]^[4]

Laya is a variety of Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan.^[5] There is a limited mutual intelligibility with Dzongkha, mostly in basic vocabulary and grammar.^[6]

References

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^ LayaatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

^ Dorji, C. T. (1997). An Introduction to Bhutanese Languages. Vikas. p. 25. ISBN 9788125904373. Retrieved 2011-09-27.

^ Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). Layakha (16 (online) ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 2011-09-26. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

^ Wangdi, Kencho (2003-11-04). "Laya: Not Quite a Hidden Land". Kuensel online. Archived from the original on 2003-12-07. Retrieved 2011-09-26.

^ van Driem, George; Tshering, Karma (1998). Dzongkha. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Vol. 1. Research CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies. p. 1. ISBN 90-5789-002-X. Retrieved 2011-09-27.

^ "Tribe – Layap". BBC online. 2006-05-01. Retrieved 2011-09-26.