Sherpa language
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Sherpa (also Sharpa, Sherwa, or Xiaerba) is a Tibetic language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa. The majority speakers of the Sherpa language live in the Khumbu region of Nepal, spanning from the Chinese (Tibetan) border in the east to the Bhotekosi River in the west.[3] About 127,000 speakers live in Nepal (2021 census), some 16,000 in Sikkim, India (2011) and some 800 in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (1994). Sherpa is a subject-object-verb (SOV) language. Sherpa is predominantly a spoken language, although it is occasionally written using either the Devanagari or Tibetan script.[3]
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For other uses, see Sherpa (disambiguation).
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Sherpa | |
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शेर्वी तम्ङे, śērwī tamṅē, ཤར་པའི་སྐད་ཡིག, shar pa'i skad yig | |
Native to | Nepal, India |
Region | Nepal, Sikkim, Tibet |
Ethnicity | Sherpa |
Native speakers | 140,000 (2011 & 2021 census)[1] |
Tibetan, Devanagari | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Nepal India |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xsr |
Glottolog | sher1255 |
ELP | Sherpa |
Sherpa is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
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