Sunwar language


Sunwar, Sunuwar, or Kõinch, is a Kiranti language spoken in Nepal and India by the Sunwar people. It was first comprehensively attested by the Himalayan Languages Project. It is also known as Kõits Lo, Kiranti-Kõits, Mukhiya.

Geographical distribution

Sunwar is spoken in the following locations of Nepal.
Seu+wa+la
SunwarEnglish
Hello / Good Bye
/ / I bow to you
What
How to
How much
How big
I
We are
You
You are
we
we are
Beautiful
Good
Ugly

Language Structure

In linguistic typology, a subject+object+verb language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order. If English were SOV, "Sam oranges ate" would be an ordinary sentence, as opposed to the actual Standard English "Sam ate oranges".
LanguageSOV
GoKhamayJainu
IRiceEat

Sunwar people called "Khangsa" sign language with voice and direct action, for foreign people who don't understand a sunuwar language.

Area

Sunwar language is spoken in villages in Dolakha, Ramechhap and Okhaldhunga, about 120 kilometers east of Kathmandu.

Writing systems

Though Sunwar is most commonly written with the Devanagari script, a native writing system, Jenticha, has seen limited use since the 1940s. Invented by Krishna Bahadur Jenticha in 1942, the Jenticha script was initially a pure alphabet, but has since developed alphasyllabic characteristics. It has seen use in newspapers, poetry anthologies, academic works, and Sunwar-language translations of the proceedings of the Sikkim legislative assembly.

Numerals and alphabet (Devanagari)

Numerals

Vowels

Consonants