District
Taplejung
Koshi Province · capital Biratnagar
4 languages are recorded as spoken in Taplejung. Open any one of them for its alphabet, words, songs, stories and preparedness index.
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4 languages: Limbu (Yaktung), Sherpa, Walungge, Yakkha Rai
Taplejung within Koshi
Languages spoken here
Speech recorded in Taplejung
Limbu (Yaktung)
ᤛᤡᤖᤡᤈᤞᤠ᤺ᤴ / याक्थुङ पान्
Limbu, self-named Yakthung Pan, is a Kiranti language of far-eastern Nepal written in the Sirijanga script, revived in t…
Also spoken in 4 other districts
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ཤར་པ་སྐད། / शेर्पा
Sherpa is a Tibetic language of the high valleys below Everest, carried from Kham some five centuries ago. Its speech is…
Also spoken in 3 other districts
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Recorded in High Himalayas (Taplejung).
Recorded only in this district
See on the language mapYakkha Rai
याक्खा
Yakkha is a Kiranti language of the Arun valley with very few child speakers left. Documentation projects have recorded …
Also spoken in 1 other district
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