Ethnologue locations: (west) Dang and Pyuthan districts (dark grey) within Lumbini Province; (center) Tanahun District within Gandaki Province EndangeredLanguages.com location: red WALS location: purple (Gorkha District)
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Kusunda (Nepali: कुसान्डा; endonym मिहाकKusunda:[mʰjaχ]ⓘ) 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 Khatri Sen,[2] although there are efforts underway to keep the language alive.[3]
^Kusunda at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
^Bhattarai, Sewa (2023-05-13). "The last of the Kusunda". nepalitimes.com. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
^McDougall, Eileen. "The language that doesn't use 'no'". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
Kusunda (Nepali: कुसान्डा; endonym मिहाक Kusunda: [mʰjaχ] ) is a language isolate spoken by a few among the Kusunda people in western and central Nepal...
The Kusunda (Nepali: कुसुन्डा जाति) or Ban Raja ("people of the forest"), known to themselves as the Mihaq or Myahq (< *Myahak), are a tribe of former...
Kusunda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kusunda may refer to: Kusunda people, an ethnic group in western Nepal Kusundalanguage, their language This...
survive in the Kusundalanguage, which is nearly extinct today. Nepal also has at several indigenous village sign languages: Jhankot Sign Language, Jumla Sign...
Philosophical Society vol. 71 pt. 3, (1981) "The language that doesn't use 'no'". "Resuscitating dying Kusundalanguage". Kathmandupost.com. 2019-01-04. Retrieved...
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unclassified Harappan language small language families and isolates of the Indian subcontinent: Burushaski, Kusunda, and Nihali. The Vedda language of Sri Lanka...
the Kusundalanguage of Nepal belongs to the tentative Indo-Pacific superfamily rather than belonging to the Tibeto-Burman group or being a language isolate...
rest of South Asia include Burushaski, a language spoken in Gilgit–Baltistan (administered by Pakistan), Kusunda (in western Nepal), and Vedda (in Sri Lanka)...
is also home to a few language isolates, like Burushaski, Kusunda, Nihali, and Vedda. Areally, the influence of the languages extend beyond the subcontinent...
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German, and in Nepal he analyzed two unwritten languages: Raji, a Tibeto-Burman language, and Kusunda, a linguistic isolate. While making over 200 ascents...
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Andamanese) live in some of the Andaman Islands and speak a language isolate, as do the Kusunda in central Nepal, the Vedda in Sri Lanka, and the Nihali...
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also studied Kusunda, a language isolate of Nepal. Members of the Himalayan Languages Project also regularly organise the Himalayan Languages Symposium,...
Indian subcontinent, but have been found in Malto and Kusunda natively. However, several languages spoken in the northwest of the subcontinent have loaned...
An endangered is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers...
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linguistic heritage evolved from 2 major language groups: Indo-European languages, Tibeto-Burman languages. Nepal's languages are mostly either Indo-European or...
District has the highest population of the endangered native group the Kusunda and the lowest population growth rate in Nepal. The district was named...
Dene-Kusunda Hypothesis’: Archaeology and Genealogy of Linguistic Macro-Families and Its Significance in Tracing the History of Human Language. Man In...
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