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    भाषा, tamu bhāṣā), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Gurung people of Nepal. The total number of all Gurung speakers in Nepal was 227,918 in 1991...
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    Sino-Tibetan Gurung language and most of them practice the Bon religion alongside Tibetan Buddhism and Hinduism. The origin of the Gurung people can be...
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    Shree Amber Gurung (Nepali: अम्बर गुरुङ) (26 February 1938 – 7 June 2016) was a Nepalese composer, singer, and lyricist. He composed Nepal's national anthem...
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    Ghatu (dance) (category Gurung culture)
    (Nepali: घाटु नाच) is a Nepalese folk dance of the Gurung community of Sikkim, India and western Nepal. The dance is performed mainly during Baisakhi...
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    Tibeto-Burman Western (= Bodic) Tibetan–Kanauri Tibetic Gurung East Bodic (incl. Tsangla) Kanauri Himalayan Eastern (Kiranti) Western (Newar, Chepang...
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    Hindustani language in the courts of North-Western Provinces. Following independence, the Constituent Assembly remained divided on the language issue, with...
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    smaller non-Indo-Aryan (esp. non-Gorkhali) groups such as the Tamang and Gurung in Southern Bhutan, and the Kiranti groups (including the Rai and Limbu...
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    Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians...
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    Havildar Bhanbhagta Gurung, VC (Nepali: भनभक्त गुरुङ; September 1921 – 1 March 2008), also known as Bhanbhakta Gurung, was a Nepalese Gurkha recipient...
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  • many Gurung villages. These dance forms are centuries old and are performed either solo or in a group. Music also plays a big role in the Gurung ritual...
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    Gandaki Province (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
    most-spoken language, by 72.67% of the population. 9.85% speak Kham Magar, 8.70% Gurung, 1.72% Newar, 1.48% Tharu and 1.42% Tamang. The Language Commission...
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    Nungish Kinauri Gurung-Tamang Bodish Naic Ersuish, Qiangic, Rgyalrongic Lolo-Burmese Except for the Chinese, Bai, Karenic, and Mruic languages, the usual word...
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    Gopal Gurung (Nepali: गोपाल गुरुङ) (7 December 1939 – 10 June 2016) was a politician, author, journalist, teacher and vocal advocate of the human rights...
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    Tamang, and Western Tamang. Lexical similarity between Eastern Tamang (which is regarded as the most prominent) and other Tamang languages varies between...
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    the ancient Khasas of Mahabharata, as the language developed during the rule of the Khasa Kingdom in the western Nepal. Following the Unification of Nepal...
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  • groups (Eastern and Western) and further dialect divisions give distinct tribal identity. In Nepal 810,000 people speak the language. While the government...
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    Bengali language can be found in these works. But grammatical peculiarities prove these works to be in the Assamese language of the western part of Assam...
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  • Sarki (ethnic group) (category Articles containing Nepali (macrolanguage)-language text)
    Nepali language spoken by Khas Arya is their mother tongue. They also speak Gurung . National Statistics Office (2021). National Population and Housing Census...
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    Prithvi Subba Gurung (Nepali: पृथ्वी सुब्बा गुरुङ) is a Nepalese politician and former Chief Minister of Gandaki Province, a province in western Nepal. He...
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    Anil Gurung (Nepali: अनिल गुरुङ; born 17 September 1986) is a Nepali footballer who plays as a striker for Brigade Boys Club in the Martyr's Memorial A-Division...
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  • Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Gurung – तमु क्यी Official language in: the Indian state of Sikkim Gwich'in – Gwich'in Official language in: the Canadian federal...
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    region. The Sino-Tibetan languages includes Tamang, Newari, Magar language, Gurung language, Kiranti languages and Sherpa language and are often spoken in...
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    language of the Meche people and the Boro of Bengal are western dialects whereas the dialects in Assam are the eastern dialects of Boro. The western dialects...
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  • than /n/, whereas i is used in all other cases: boo i "of the house", but gurung ni "of the palace". Its primary function is to indicate the possessor of...
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    Ilam District (category Articles containing Nepali (macrolanguage)-language text)
    Chamling (1.25%), Newari and Gurung (1.00%). Other languages spoken here include Lepcha, which was the aboriginal language of neighbouring Sikkim and the...
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    Syangja District (category Articles containing Nepali (macrolanguage)-language text)
    first language, 74.4% spoke Nepali, 15.1% Magar, 7.8% Gurung, 1.7% Newari, 0.3% Urdu, 0.2% Bhujel, 0.1% Bhojpuri, 0.1% Maithili and 0.1% other languages as...
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    Thakur (title) (category CS1 Hindi-language sources (hi))
    Thakur is derived from the "late Sanskrit" word Thakkura.: 28  Harka Bahadur Gurung noted that the Nepalese version of the word Thakur is Thakuri. The meaning...
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    Pokhara (category Articles containing Nepali (macrolanguage)-language text)
    1% Limbu and 0.1% other languages as their first language. In terms of ethnicity/caste, 28.0% were Hill Brahmin, 16.1% Gurung, 15.4% Chhetri, 9.1% Magar...
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  • Kuki-Chin languages (also called Kuki-Chin-Mizo, Kukish or South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages) are a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken...
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    Tanahun District (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
    District had a population of 323,288. As first language, 61.7% of these spoke Nepali, 21.0% Magar, 8.4% Gurung, 4.1% Newari, 1.2% Darai, 0.8% Urdu, 0.7% Tamang...
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