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Gurung language


Name	Gurung
Nativename	Tamu Kyi
Familycolor	Sino-Tibetan
Ethnicity	Gurung people
States	Nepal, India, Bhutan
Region	South Asia
Speakers	227,918 in Nepal
Fam2	(Tibeto-Burman)
Fam3	Tamangic
Script	Tibetan script, Devanagari script
Lc1	ggn\|ld1=Eastern Gurung\|ll1=none
Lc2	gvr\|ld2=Western Gurung\|ll2=none

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Gurung (also, Tamu Kyi, Devanagari:तमु क्यी) is spoken by the Gurung people in two dialects with limited mutual intelligibility. Total number of all Gurung speakers in Nepal is 227,918 (1991 census). Perhaps, a distinction should be made between Gurung as an ethnic group and the number of people who actually speak the language.

Nepali, Nepal's official language, is an Indo-European language, whereas Gurung is a Tibeto-Burman language. Gurung are recognized as an official nationality by the Government of Nepal.

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