Thulung
[aka Rai, Thulunge Rai, Thulu Luwa]Classification: Sino-Tibetan
·severely endangered
Classification: Sino-Tibetan
·severely endangered
Rai, Thulunge Rai, Thulu Luwa, Thululoa, Thulung La, Tholong Lo, Thulung Jemu, Toaku Lwa |
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Sino-Tibetan, Kiranti |
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Information from: “Aspects of the Grammar of Thulung Rai: An endangered Himalayan Language” . Aimée Lahaussois (2002)
Education, economy, and inter-marriage are main reasons why Thulung is not passed down.
Nepali
All Thulung speakers are bilingual in Nepali, resulting in heavy borrowing of Nepali in Thulung.
Thulung is not traditionally written down.
the middle hills of eastern Nepal, on the western edge of the Kirant region
Information from: “Personal Communication” . Gregory Anderson (2012)
"Locally endangered or threatened."
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “South Asia and the Middle East” (289-348 ch. 4) . George Van Driem (2007) , Christopher Mosely · London and NewYork: Routledge
"The language is not being passed on."
"Southern Solukhumbu district."
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
30,000 in Nepal (2003), decreasing.
Nepal: Sagarmatha zone, southeast Solukhumbu District; Okhaldhunga District; Koshi zone, Bhojpur District; west of the slopes’ highest ridges to Dudhkosi, north of Nechedanda and Halesidanda ranges, east of upper Solu River, and south of the Kakukhola and the confluence of Ingkhukhola and Dudhkosi. India: Sikkim; West Bengal, Darjeeling District; Uttar Pradesh