| Gurung | |
|---|---|
| Tamu Kyi | |
| Spoken in | Nepal, India, Bhutan |
| Region | South Asia |
| Ethnicity | Gurung people |
| Native speakers | 227,918 in Nepal (date missing) |
| Language family |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Writing system | Tibetan script, Devanagari script |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | either: ggn – Eastern Gurung gvr – Western Gurung |
Gurung (also, Tamu Kyi, Devanagari:तमु क्यी) is spoken by the Gurung people in two dialects with limited mutual intelligibility. Total number of all Gurung speakers in Nepal is 227,918 (1991 census). Perhaps, a distinction should be made between Gurung as an ethnic group and the number of people who actually speak the language.
Nepali, Nepal's official language, is an Indo-European language, whereas Gurung is a Tibeto-Burman language. Gurung are recognized as an official nationality by the Government of Nepal.
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According to ethnologue, Gurung is two languages, Eastern [ggn] and Western [gvr].
Some miscellaneous grammatical features of the Gurung languages are;
Phonetically, Gurung languages are tonal.
Gurung languages use Devanāgarī script.
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