Gurung language

E701226

Gurung language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Gurung people of central Nepal, especially in the Gandaki region.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Gurung language canonical 3

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sino-Tibetan language
language
belongsTo Gurung culture NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Manangba language
Tamang language NERFINISHED
Thakali language NERFINISHED
country Nepal
ethnicGroup Gurung people NERFINISHED
family Sino-Tibetan language family NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Gurung NERFINISHED
Tamu Gurung NERFINISHED
Tamu language NERFINISHED
hasDialect Eastern Gurung NERFINISHED
Western Gurung NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode guru1254
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammars
phonological studies
sociolinguistic surveys
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature tone
hasSpeakerCommunity Himalayan region of Nepal
isEndangered true
ISO639-3 gvr
languageFamilyBranch Tamangic NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language
vulnerable language
nativeName Tamu kyi NERFINISHED
primaryWordOrder SOV
region Gandaki Province NERFINISHED
Gorkha District NERFINISHED
Kaski District NERFINISHED
Lamjung District NERFINISHED
Syangja District NERFINISHED
spokenIn Gandaki region NERFINISHED
Nepal NERFINISHED
central Nepal
subfamily Tibeto-Burman NERFINISHED
usedAs home language by many Gurung people
usedBy Gurung community NERFINISHED
usedIn folk songs of Gurung people
oral tradition of Gurung people
rituals of Gurung people
writingSystem Devanagari script NERFINISHED
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gandaki Province hasMajorLanguage Gurung language
Tamang closelyRelatedTo Gurung language
Tanahun District hasLanguage Gurung language