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Where is Kyerung spoken?

Kyerung is a Sino-Tibetan language, spoken in China and Nepal. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Kyerung is spoken

Kyerung is spoken in 2 countries: China and Nepal.

Country
China
Nepal

Kyerung has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Kyerung?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Kyerung sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Kyerung as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Sino-Tibetan
  2. Bodic
  3. Bodish
  4. Early Old Tibetan
  5. Middle Old Tibetan
  6. Late Old Tibetan
  7. Central Tibetan
  8. South-Western Tibetic
  9. Kyirong-Kagate
  10. Gyalsumdo-Nubri-Kyirong
  11. Kyerung

Related languages

Other languages in the Gyalsumdo-Nubri-Kyirong group:

More about Kyerung

Codes: ISO 639-3 kgy, Glottolog kyer1238. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Kyerung

Where is Kyerung spoken?

Kyerung is spoken in China and Nepal. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Kyerung in?

Glottolog places Kyerung in the Sino-Tibetan family, in the branch Bodic, Bodish, Early Old Tibetan, Middle Old Tibetan, Late Old Tibetan, Central Tibetan, South-Western Tibetic, Kyirong-Kagate and Gyalsumdo-Nubri-Kyirong.

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