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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

12,200

Domains of Use

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Transmission

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Community Members

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Language Information By Source

Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

12,200

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

99,400

Non-monolingual speakers

all

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2013

Location and Context

Countries

Nepal

Coordinates

No data

Location description

"Lumbini Zone, Nawalparasi district, south of Darai [dry] language area; Arghakhanchi and Palpa districts; Gandaki Zone, Gorkha and Tanahun districts; Rapti Zone, Dang district."

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

increasing positive (not reflecting on their choice of language)

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

Devanagari script

Other writing systems

"Lumbini Zone, Nawalparasi district, south of Darai [dry] language area; Arghakhanchi and Palpa districts; Gandaki Zone, Gorkha and Tanahun districts; Rapti Zone, Dang district."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Nepali

Domains of other languages

all

More on context

The Kumhali is shifting to Nepali.

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

6,533

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Nepal

Coordinates

27.788,84.548

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

unknown

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

all

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2000

Location and Context

Countries

Nepal

Coordinates

No data

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Nepali

Domains of other languages

all

More on context

heavily influenced by Nepali. Kumhali is used only at home and with community members who speak and understand the language.

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

6,533

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

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Year of info

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

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Location description

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Government support

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Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

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More on context

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Media Resources

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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)
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    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. Verbal affixation in Kumal
    Gautam, Bhim Lal. 2000. Verbal affixation in Kumal. Nepalese Linguistics 17. 28-35. Kirtipur/Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal, Tribhuvan University.
    http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/nepling/pdf/Nep_Ling_17.pdf
  6. Morphology of Kumal verbs
    Gautam, Bhim Lal. 2000. Morphology of Kumal verbs. MA thesis. Tribhuvan University.
  7. A grammar of Kumal: as spoken in Arghakhanchi
    Parajuli, K. P. 2000. A grammar of Kumal: as spoken in Arghakhanchi. MA thesis. Tribhuvan University.