31636 Western Gurung 100000 522,000 Numbers given here cover both Western and Eastern Gurung speakers.

"Despite regional differences in speech that may be found, Gurungs view themselves as having one homogenous ethnic identity. Those who have left their home area may no longer speak their Gurung language, but still identify themselves with the Gurung community and culture. They refer to their ethnic community as ‘Tamu’ and their language as ‘Tamu Kyi.’ Despite acknowledging dialectal differences in various Gurung-speaking regions, they consider ‘Tamu Kyi’ to be one language." (p.3) A sociolinguistic study of Gurung in Nepal On 325,000 100000