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Name:
Sunwar
Alternate Names:
Sunuwar; Sunbar; Sunwari; Sonowar; Sonowal; Mukhiya; Kwoico Lo; Sunwar (in French); Sunwar (in Spanish); Sunuwār
Spoken in:
Nepal
Number of speakers:
40,000 (2002 UNESCO). Ethnic population: 95,254
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
26611
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
26611
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
suz
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Sino-Tibetan
Parent Subgroup:
Sunwari (sunw)
Child Dialect:
Surel (suz-sur)
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Sunwar
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