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Sherpa
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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.