Kusunda
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endangered language isolate of Nepal
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ gemʰjaχ gipən ]
- Native to
- Nepal
- Region
- Gandaki Province , Lumbini Province
- Ethnicity
- 253 Kusunda (2021 census)
- Native speakers
- 1 (2023)
- Revival
- Classes available
- Language family
- Language isolate
- Writing system
- Devanagari
- Iso 639 3
- kgg
- Glottolog
- kusu1250
- Elp
- Kusunda
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Lumbini Province
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- exact match
- phoible.org/languages/kusu1250
- different from
- Sundanese
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 7
- topic's main category
- Category:Kusunda language
- native label
- Gemehaq gipan
- indigenous to
- Kusunda people
- linguistic typology
- language isolate
- ethnic group
- Kusunda people
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Encyclopedic overview
Kusunda or Kusanda (endonym Gemehaq gipan Kusunda: [gemʰjaχ] [gipən] ) is a language isolate spoken by a few among the Kusunda people in western and central Nepal. As of 2023, it only has a single fluent speaker, Kamala Sen-Khatri, although there are efforts underway to keep the language alive. There were 23 native speakers according to the 2021 Nepal census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kusunda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.