Gurung language
| Gurung | |
|---|---|
| Tamu Kyi | |
| Native to | Nepal |
| Ethnicity | Gurung people |
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Native speakers
|
360,000 (2007) |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Official status | |
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Official language in
|
Nepal Burma India China |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | guru1261 |
Gurung (also Tamu Kyi, Devanagari:तमु क्यी) is spoken by the Gurung people in two dialects with limited mutual intelligibility. The total number of all Gurung speakers in Nepal was 227,918 (1991 census). There is no distinction between Gurung as an ethnic group and the number of people who speak the language.
Nepali, Nepal's official language, is an Indo-European language, whereas Gurung is a Sino-Tibetan language. Gurung is recognized as an official nationality by the Government of Nepal.
Gurung is spoken in the following districts of Nepal (Ethnologue):
Some miscellaneous grammatical features of the Gurung languages are:
Phonetically, Gurung languages are tonal.
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