Gurung language


Gurung is spoken by the Gurung people. The total number of all Gurung speakers in Nepal was 227,918. There is no distinction between Gurung as an ethnic group and the number of people who speak the language.
Nepali, Nepal's official language, is an Indo-European language, whereas Gurung is a Sino-Tibetan language.

Geographical distribution

Gurung is spoken in the following districts of Nepal :
Some miscellaneous grammatical features of the Gurung languages are:
Phonetically, Gurung languages are tonal.