Western Gurung

Facts

Language: Western Gurung
Alternate names: Gurung, Tamu Kyi, Gurnung, Gurung, Western
Language code: gvr
Language family: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Western Tibeto-Burman, Bodish, West Bodish, Gurung-Tamang, Gurungic (SIL classification)
Number of speakers: 325,000
Vulnerability: Threatened
Script: Devanagari script.

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Buddhist, Hindu, Christian.

Eastern and Western Gurung do not have adequate intelligibility to handle complex and abstract discourse. Daduwa town seems central linguistically. (Lewis 2009) The new ISO code change resulted in the inclusion of Eastern Gurung into Western Gurung (http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/639-3_ChangeRequests_2015_Summary.pdf).