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Name:
Sherpa
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Sharpa; Sharpa Bhotia; Xiaerba; Serwa; Sharpā; Bhōṭiā of northwestern Nepal; Śarpa
Spoken in:
Nepal, USA, India, China, Korea, South, Bhutan
Number of speakers:
50,000 in Nepal (2000 SIL), decreasing. Population total all countries: 86,200. Ethnic population: 154,622 (2001 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
143693
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
151071
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
xsr
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Sino-Tibetan
Parent Subgroup:
Southern Tibetan; Southern Central Tibetan; South Bodish Unit; Southern (stib)
Child Dialects:
Khumbu (xsw-khu)
Solu (xsr-sol)
Ramechap; Western (xsw-ram)
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Sherpa
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