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Name:
Gurung, Western
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Gurung; Gurnung; Eastern; Gurung; Western; Tamu Kyi; Tamu; West Gurung; Gurung,Western
Spoken in:
Nepal, India, Bhutan
Number of speakers:
125,000 in Nepal (2007). Population total all countries: 201,300. Ethnic population: 543,571
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
72082
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
gvr
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Sino-Tibetan
Parent Subgroup:
Tamangic; Gurung Branch (tmac)
Child Dialects:
Southern Gurung; Syangja Gurung (gvr-sou)
Northwestern Gurung; Kaski Gurung (gvr-nor)
Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Endangerment Status
Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Map of Gurung, Western
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