Tichurong, also known as Tichurongke, "poike", "Tichurong Poike" is a
Sino-Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...
language spoken by the
Magar people in the
Tichurong valley of
Karnali Province, specifically in the
Dolpa district, in western
Nepal. It is spoken in the villages of Gumbatara, Gufa, Rukha, Kola, Tachin, Khani, Khani Gumba, Namdel, Baijibara, Syala, Vyas, Banthada, Chilpara, Dharapani and Lawan.
[ As of 2000, the language was spoken by 2,420 individuals.]
References
Languages of Nepal
Sino-Tibetan languages
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