Lumba-Yakkha

LUU

threatened

Alternate Names: Yakkhaba Cea

Genealogy:

Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
Western Tibeto-Burman
Himalayan
Kiranti
Eastern

Demographics: 1,200 (2000).

Language Use: Language retained among some youth (Hansson 1991). Home.

Typology: SOV; postpositions; noun head final; verbal affixation marks person and number; both tense and aspect, nontonal.

Writing System: Unwritten

Nation of Origin: Nepal

Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian, Hindu.