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Sunwar language

Sunuwar
Sunuwar koich.jpg
Region Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan
Native speakers
38,000 (2011)
Dialects
  • Sunuwar proper
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog sunw1242

Sunuwar, or Kõinch (कोँइच; kõica; other spellings are Koinch and Koincha), is a Kiranti language spoken in Nepal by the Sunuwar people. It was first comprehensively attested by the Himalayan Languages Project. It is also known as Kõits Lo (कोँइच लो ; kõica lo), Kiranti-Kõits (किराँती-कोँइच ; kirā̃tī-kõica), Mukhiya (मुखिया ; mukhiyā).

Sunuwar is spoken in the following locations of Nepal (Ethnologue).

Seu+wa+la (Sewala)

Sunuwar is spoken in villages in the districts of Ramechap and Okhaldhunga, about 120 kilometers east of Kathmandu.

Though Sunuwar is most commonly written with the Devanagari script, a native writing system, Jenticha, has seen limited use since the 1940s.



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