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
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- exact match
- phoible.org/languages/kusu1250
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 7
- native label
- Gemehaq gipan
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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.
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