Sherpa language
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| Sherpa | ||
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| Spoken in: | Nepal, Tibet, Kashmir | |
| Total speakers: | ca. 150,000 (2000) | |
| Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Himalayish Tibeto-Kanauri Tibetan Southern Tibetan Sherpa |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | to be added | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | xsr | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Sherpa (also Sharpa, Sharpa Bhotia, Xiaerba, Serwa; ISO/DIS 639-3: xsr) is a language spoken in parts of Nepal and Sikkim mainly by the Sherpa community. About 130,000 speakers live in Nepal (2001 census), some 20,000 in India (1997), and some 800 in Tibet (1994).
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