The word "Gurung" (Tamu Kyi) written in Devanagari script
Native to
Nepal, India, Bhutan
Ethnicity
540,000 Gurung (2021 census)[1]
Native speakers
380,000 (2021 census)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Tamangic
Gurung–Tamang
Gurung
Writing system
Khema, Devanagari and Tibetan
Official status
Official language in
India
Sikkim (additional)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
gvr
Glottolog
guru1261
Gurung (Devanagari: गुरुङ), also known as Tamu Kyi (तमु क्यी, tamu kyī; Tibetan: ཏམུ་ཀི) or Tamu Bhāṣā (तमु भाषा, tamu bhāṣā), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Gurung people of Nepal. The total number of all Gurung speakers in Nepal was 227,918 in 1991 and 325,622 in 2011.
The official language of Nepal, Nepali, is an Indo-European language, whereas Gurung is a Sino-Tibetan language. Gurung is one of the major languages of Nepal, and is also spoken in India, Bhutan, and by diaspora communities in countries such as Singapore and Hong Kong.
^ abGurung at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^"50th Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). 16 July 2014. p. 109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
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