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Gurung, Western

A language of Nepal

ISO 639-3: gvr

Population	125,000 in Nepal (2007). Population total all countries: 201,300. Ethnic population: 543,571.
Region	Gandaki zone, Kaski, Syangja districts; Dhaulagiri zone, Parbat District. Possibly in Myanmar. Also in Bhutan, India.
Language map	Western Nepal, reference number 112
Alternate names	Gurung, Tamu Kyi
Dialects	Southern Gurung (Syangja Gurung), Northwestern Gurung (Kaski Gurung). Dialect speakers may have enough mutual inherent intelligibility to understand complex and abstract discourse, but not enough with Eastern Gurung [ggn]. Related to Thakali [ths].
Classification	Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Himalayish, Tibeto-Kanauri, Tibetic, Tamangic
Language use	18,918 L2 speakers on all Gurung languages (1991 census). Home. All ages. Positive attitude. Also use Nepali [nep]. School graduates speak some English.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 30%. Literacy rate in L2: 30%. Radio programs. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1982.
Writing system	Devanagari script.
Comments	An official nationality. SOV; postpositions; genitives, adjectives, relatives before noun heads; numerals after noun heads; rising intonation marks bipolar questions; one negative prefix on verbs; maximum number of suffixes is 3; case of noun phrases is indicated by postpositions; no subject or object referencing in verbs; split ergative system according to tense; causatives; benefactives; CV, CCV, CCCV; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists; pastoralists. Buddhist, Hindu.

Also spoken in:

India

Language name	Gurung, Western
Population	33,000 in India (2007). Ethnic population: 112,000 of which 77,000 speak Nepali.
Region	West Bengal, Darjeeling. Possibly in Myanmar.
Alternate names	Gurung Kura

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

GLOVER, Jessie R., author. 1969. "Structure and function in the Gurung interrogative."

GLOVER, Jessie R., author. 1972. "The role of the witch in Gurung society."

GLOVER, Jessie R., author. Available: 2011; Created: 1971. Paragraph structure in Gurung discourse.

GLOVER, Jessie R.; GLOVER, Warren W., authors. 1972. A guide to Gurung tone.

GLOVER, Jessie R.; GLOVER, Warren W.; GURUNG, Deu Bahadur, authors. 1977. Gurung-Nepali-English dictionary.

GLOVER, Jessie R.; GLOVER, Warren W.; GURUNG, Deu Bahadur, compilers. 1976. Gurung-Nepali-English-glossary, with Nepali-Gurung-index.

GLOVER, Jessie R.; GLOVER, Warren W.; HALE, Austin; TAYLOR, Doreen, authors. 1969. Journal of the Tribhuvan University: special linguistic number.

GLOVER, Jessie R.; GURUNG, Deu Bahadur, authors. 1979. Conversational Gurung.

GLOVER, Jessie R.; PITTMAN, Richard S., authors. 1970. "Proto-Tamang-Gurung-Thakali."

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1969. "Three Gurung equivalents of English be."

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1969. Gurung phonemic summary.

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1970. "Cognate counts via the Swadesh list in some Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal."

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1970. "Gurung segmental synopsis."

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1970. "Gurung texts."

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1970. "Gurung tone and higher levels."

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1971. "Register in Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal: a comparison with Mon-Khmer."

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1972. A vocabulary of the Gurung language.

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1973. Sememic and grammatical structures in Gurung (Nepal).

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1974. Sememic and grammatical structures in Gurung.  

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1999. ""How we observe Dasain": a procedural discourse in Gurung."

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 2002. "Choosing a Gurung orthography for a new dictionary."

GLOVER, Warren W., author. 2004. Ouch! Don't print that! Political correctness in Gurung lexicography.  

GLOVER, Warren W.; GURUNG, Ratna Bahadur, authors. 2003. tamu-nepali-ãgreji tãpũchyoŋ (guruŋ-nepali-ãgreji shəbdəkosh).

GLOVER, Warren W.; HALE, Austin, authors. 1970. "A note on glides, syllabicity and tone in Gurung."

GLOVER, Warren W.; LANDON, John K., authors. 1980. "Gurung dialects."

GLOVER, Warren W.; YADAVA, Yogendra P., editors. 1999. Topics in Nepalese linguistics.

GURUNG, Deepa; MORGAN, Mary M., authors. 2002. "Languages worth writing: endangered languages of Nepal."

HALE, Austin, author. 1970. "A phonological survey of seven Bodic languages of Nepal."

HALE, Austin; PIKE, Kenneth L., editors. 1970. Tone systems of the Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 2: Lexical lists and comparative studies.

HALE, Austin; PIKE, Kenneth L., editors. 1970. Tone systems of the Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 3: Texts 1.

HALE, Austin; PIKE, Kenneth L., editors. 1970. Tone systems of Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 1: Studies on tone and phonological segments.

HALE, Austin; PIKE, Kenneth L., editors. 1970. Tone systems of Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 4: Texts 2.

HINTON, Bruce C., author. 1970. "Spectrographic confirmation of contrastive pitch and breathiness in Gurung."

PITTMAN, Richard S., author. 1970. "Gurung, Tamang, Thakali, Sherpa, and Chepang prosodies."