Save Kiranti language - Native Language of the Himalayas Nepal

UNESCO estimates that there are 6000 languages in active use today though many are declining and many more has been lost.

In Nepal alone, more than 100 languages are spoken in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, but most of them have less than 10,000 speakers.

Various scholars and linguists today have been studying various languages spoken in Nepal. These scholars knew that many of these languages are endangered and many more has been extinct. The Summer Institute of Linguistic-SIL has published a report stating the Kusunda language as extinct. An Austrian scholar Jhoan Reinhard had reported in mid-1970's that there were only few speakers left alive, only two so he had urged to carry out a thorough research on the Kusunda language. But then the Nepalese government failed to take his advice. Today it's gone forever.

The linguists have identified that majority of languages spoken by various ethnic and indigenous communities belong to Tibeto-Burmese language. In contrary, the official language of Nepal is call "nepali" which happens to be Indo-Aryan language. And of this Tibeto-Burmese language, various scholars and linguists have studied and documented Kiranti language. Linguistics expert have found that the Kiranti language family comprises some 30 languages (Ebert 1994; some counts are higher: Hansson (1991) and Grimes (2000) put the estimate closer to 40) in the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.


References
Karen H. Ebert (2003). "Kiranti Languages: An Overview," The Sino-Tibetan Languages.
George van Driem (2001). Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region.
Ebert, K. (1994). The Structure of Kiranti Languages.
Hansson, G. (1991). The Rai of Eastern Nepal, Ethnic and Linguistic Grouping: Findings of the Linguistic Survey of Nepal.

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• rai
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• sino-tibetan language
• tibeto-burmese language
• nepali language
• indo-aryan language
• chinese language

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NEPALESE LETS SAVE THE NATIVE LANGUAGE BY SPEAKING CHINESE AND JAPANESE OR MAY BE KOREANS. BCOS? THEY ARE KIRATS.