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Basum

Basum is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Basum (autonym: brag gsum 'three cliffs'; Basong 巴松话; Bake) is a divergent Bodish language spoken by about 2,500 people in Gongbo'gyamda County 工布江达县, Nyingtri Prefecture, Tibet, China. Basum is spoken by 13.5% of the population of Gongbo'gyamda County. Glottolog lists Basum as unclassified within Bodish.

Wang (2020) is a grammatical and morphosyntactic description of Basum.

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