Endangered Languages Project - Darai

Darai

Classification: Indo-European

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endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan
ORTHOGRAPHY		Devanagari script
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		dry
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Information from: “A sketch grammar of Darai” . Paudyal, Netra Prasad (2003)

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~3060
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
10210 (2001 census)
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Spoken by less than 1/3 of the Darai population.

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Scripts (Writing system): Devanagari script

PLACES: Nepal

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Tanahu, Gorkha, Chitwan, Nawalparasi, Palpa and Dhuading districts; the majority of Darai live in Tanahu

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10,200
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
14,859
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 2001 census.

DATE OF INFO: 2001

PLACES: Nepal

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10,210
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10,210
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press