Bhotia language

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Sherpa
Spoken in: Nepal, Tibet, Kashmir
Total speakers: ca. 150,000 (2000)
Language family: Sino-Tibetan
 Tibeto-Burman
  Himalayish
   Tibeto-Kanauri
    Tibetan
     Southern Tibetan
      Sherpa
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: –
ISO 639-3: xsr
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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).

Days of the Week in Sherpa
English Sherpa
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").


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