Mugom dialect
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Mugom language, also known as Mugom-ket, is the Sino-Tibetan language of the Mugali people of Mugu district in Nepal.[1][2]
Language name
Mugom speakers self-identify as “Moa,” and are referred to as “Mugali” by non-Tibetan peoples of the area. Mugom speakers simply refer to their language as “mugu jillako bhote bhasa,” lit. ‘the Tibetan language of Mugu district.’[3]
Speakers
Mugom is spoken by roughly 500 people originating from the village of Mugugau along the Mugu Karnali River in Mugum Karmarong Rural Municipality.[3][4] The language is specifically associated with Mugali people. A small diaspora community of Mugali exists in Bouddha, in the northeast part of Kathmandu.
Language vitality
In 2002, a sociolinguistic study found that Mugom speakers in diaspora consistently used their own language with each other, and that the language was being transmitted to children.[3] The Ethnologue has assigned EGIDS level 6a “vigorous” to the Mugom–Karmarong (ISO 639-3: muk).[1] This level denotes oral use of Mugom is stable, and that the speaker population is not decreasing.[5]
Resources
- Mugom primer: A clear reflection of Mugom: Book 1
- Mugom primer: A clear reflection of Mugom: Book 2
- Sociolinguistic Study: Japola, Mari-Sisco. (2002). Mugom Survey. United Mission to Nepal, Mugu Education Project internal report: unpublished.
Notes
There have been attempts to create health-education materials aimed at the Mugali and Karani that take into account their culture and levels of literacy specifically.
References
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- ↑ a b c Japola, Mari-Sisco. (2002). Mugom Survey. United Mission to Nepal, Mugu Education Project internal report: unpublished.
- ↑ Central Bureau of Statistics. (2014). National population and housing census 2011. Kathmandu: Government of Nepal.
- ↑ Lewis, M. Paul, and Gary F. Simons. (2016). Sustaining language use: Perspectives on community based language development. Dallas, TX: SIL International.
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External links
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