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Name:
Gurung, Eastern
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Gurung; Gurnung; Eastern; Gurung; Western; Eastern and Western Gurung do not have adequate intelligibility to handle complex and abstract discourse. Daduwa town seems central linguistically.; Tamu; East Gurung; Gurung,Eastern; Gurung; Gurnung; Western;
Spoken in:
Nepal
Number of speakers:
227,000 (2007), decreasing. 338,925 all Gurung languages in Nepal (2001 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
338925
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
105000
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
ggn
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Sino-Tibetan
Parent Subgroup:
Tamangic; Gurung Branch (tmac)
Child Dialects:
Tamu Kyi (ggn-tam)
Lamjung Gurung (ggn-lam)
Gorkha Gurung (ggn-gor)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Gurung, Eastern
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