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National Population and Housing Census 2011 (National Report)
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

1520

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

2925

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Nepal

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

200

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

27.2912,86.0696

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,740

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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More about speakers

Speaker number data (2001 census), decreasing. Ethnic population: 1,821 (2001 census) to 2,826 (2000)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Nepal

Coordinates

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Location description

Janakpur zone, Ramechhap District, Mudajor and Sukajor villages; Sindhuli District, Manedihi village

Government support

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Other writing systems

Janakpur zone, Ramechhap District, Mudajor and Sukajor villages; Sindhuli District, Manedihi village

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Other languages used

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

200

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Child speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

'There are probably about 200 speakers, all bilingual in Nepali'

Year of info

2003

Location and Context

Countries

Murajor village in Ramechhap District, Nepal and Manedihi village in Sindhuli District, Nepal

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Ethnic Population

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

27.25,86.0

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,743

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    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
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  3. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  4. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  5. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  6. Váyu Vocabulary
    Hodgson, Brian H. 1857. "Váyu Vocabulary." In Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, XXVI , no. 6: 372-485.
  7. La Langue Hayu
    Michailovsky, Boyd. 1988. "La Langue Hayu." Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
  8. Hayu
    Michailovsky, Boyd. 2003. "Hayu." In The Sino-Tibetan Languages, edited by Graham Thurgood and Randy J. Lap. 518-532. London & New York: Routledge.
  9. Grammaire de la Langue Hayu (Népal)
    Michailovsky, Boyd. Grammaire De La Langue Hayu (Népal). PhD thesis, University of California at Los Angeles, 1981.
  10. Notes on the Hayu Language
    Michailovsky, Boyd and Martine Mazaudon. 1973. "Notes On the Hayu Language." In Kailash -- A Journal of Himalayan Studies, 1 , no. 2: 135-152.
  11. National Population and Housing Census 2011 (National Report)
    Central Bureau of Statistics. 2012. National Population and Housing Census 2011 (NPHC2011), volume 1. Kathmandu, Nepal.
    http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010_phc/Nepal/Nepal-Census-2011-Vol1.pdf