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Sherpa

Learn about Sherpa through verified cultural context, key facts, regions, traditions and references.

Family

Sino-Tibetan (Tibetic)

Where

Solukhumbu (Khumbu), Dolakha, Sindhupalchok, Taplejung

Speakers

≈ 1.5% (2011)

Script

Sambhota (Uchen) in religious use; Devanagari

Note

A Tibetic language closely related to the languages of Tibet, carried worldwide by the mountaineering culture of the Khumbu.