Sunwar
[别称 Sunuwar, Sunbar, Sunwari]语系:Sino-Tibetan
·近危
语系:Sino-Tibetan
·近危
信息不完整 “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)” . Paul M. Lewis; Gary F. Simons; and Charles D. Fennig · Dallas, Texas: SIL International
95,300 (2001 census)
Very few speakers are monolingual in Sunwar.
"Mixed use: Home, friends, religion, work. Adolescents and older. Some use among children. Language is passed down to children only in village areas (Toba, Toba, and Rai 2002)"
Younger people use Nepali [npi] for trade and official purposes with low proficiency (1998 SIL).
Bhujel; Tamang; Nepali
Janakpur Zone, Ramechhap, Dolakha districts, east hills; Sagarmatha Zone, northwest Okhaldhunga district.
信息不完整 “A Grammar of Sunwar: Descriptive Grammar, Paradigms, Texts and Glossary” (318pp) . Borchers, Dörte (2008) Leiden: Brill
Nepali
traditionally not written down; Educated speakers tend to write down Sunwar using Devanagari (the writing system for Nepali) if they have to; Sunwar script invented around 1940s in Sikkim
eastern Nepal, in the districts of Okhalḍhūṅgā and Rāmechāp
信息不完整 “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing
信息不完整 “South Asia and the Middle East” (283-348) . George van Driem (2007) , Christopher Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
30,000
"Spoken by a dwindling minority of the 30,000 ethnic Sunwar."
Likhu and Khimti river valleys