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तमु क्यी

Gurung
Ridgewood
Southern AsiaNepal flagNepalIndia flagIndiaHimalayan
Community Profile: Encompassing Nepal, northern India, Bhutan, and Tibet, the greater Himalayan region is a nexus of cultural and linguistic diversity. In recent decades, tens of thousands people from various parts of the region have settled in Queens and Brooklyn, making New York into a new microcosm of Himalayan diversity. Central Tibetan or Nepali may serve as a lingua franca, and Himalayan New Yorkers are generally united by their connection to Tibetan culture, written language, tradition, and religion, including for some the Classical Tibetan language, but the diversity of their own languages and cultures is also substantial.
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urung is an endangered Tibeto-Burman (Tamangic) language spoken in central Nepal by a reported 325,000 people, with additional speakers residing outside of Nepal’s borders. In New York, a community of several hundred Gurungs live in and around Jackson Heights, where the Gurung (Tamu) Society is also based. Others, like Endangered Language Alliance collaborator Narayan Gurung (a former Gurkha soldier, like some other Gurung New Yorkers) live in the Ridgewood area. Most members of this community no longer speak the Gurung language — which contains many distinct varieties based in different villages — but have switched to the national language, Nepali or, in America, English. Read more here.

Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.
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