Kusunda language

Spoken in

Language isolate Kusunda

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Kusunda is the language of Kusunda, an ethnic group in Nepal with between 100 and 200 members.

Kusunda was earlier than the Tibeto- Burmese classified as belonging, but is now mostly as isolated and remnants of an old family of languages considered, which was home there before the advance of the Tibeto- Burmese. Recently D. E. Watters et al have. discovered some young native speakers of this endangered language and written more about this otherwise Nahali quite poorly documented language.

As long as this poor documentation of Kusunda persists as a language, it will be like others (eg Nahali and Burushaski south of the Himalayas ) are probably out as insufficient language classified by larger more recently driven back to rest areas languages of Eurasia. There are, however due to linguistic and ethnographic and historical considerations not yet sufficiently confirmed hypotheses a result of the seclusion far back genetic kinship with the Kalto (or Nahali ) as part of an " Indo-Pacific " substrate ( as a temporary site name for a language group against the spread of the expansive language families in South Asia and also separated from the recessionary Dravidian ).

When considering the linguistic connection of Kusunda should be taken into that in contrast to the heavily researched Indo-European language or languages of the northern part of Eurasia and large Southeast Asian language families like Sino - Tibetan or Tibeto- Burmese have only recently through recognized reconstructions of the common proto-language, sub-groupings still rely heavily on conventions rather than on detailed linguistic comparisons as well as other languages small number of speakers in the Himalayas and in Indochina are beaten still to neighboring language families without fully convincing evidence of genetic relatedness.

Kusunda language

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