Sherpa language
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| Sherpa | ||
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| Spoken in | Nepal, Tibet, Kashmir | |
| Total speakers | ca. 150,000 (2000) | |
| Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | xsr | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Sherpa (ཤེརཔཱ , Devnagari: शेर्पा; also Sharpa, Sharpa Bhotia, Xiaerba, Serwa; ISO 639-3: xsr) is a language spoken in parts of Nepal and Sikkim mainly by the Sherpa community. About 130,000 speakers live in Nepal (2001 census), some 20,000 in India (1997), and some 800 in Tibet (1994).
| English | Sherpa |
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| Sunday | Ngi`ma (Ng' is the phoneme / ŋ /.) |
| Monday | Dawa |
| Tuesday | Mingma |
| Wednesday | Lhakpa |
| Thursday | Phurba |
| Friday | Pasang |
| Saturday | Pemba |
Note that the above days of the week is derived from Tibetan language ("Pur-gae").
Sherpa is an SOV language.
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