Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Kushar
CLASSIFICATION		Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Eastern Zone
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		bmj
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
11,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1991 census. The number of speakers is decreasing.

			3rd		2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger						UNESCO Publishing			Paris					http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub					24,664		10000-99999						Nepali						all	Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)										27.9208,83.5082
			16		2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)				M. Paul Lewis		SIL International			Dallas, TX					http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub					11,000	1991	10000-99999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1991 census. The number of speakers is decreasing.												Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)								Nepal

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