![]() Gurung Ghatu Dance in Tamu losar festival | |
Total population | |
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c. 795,290[citation needed] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Manang, Lamjung, Mustang, Gorkha, Kaski, Tanahun, Syangja and Dolpa | |
![]() | 543,790 (2021)[1] |
![]() | 139,000 (above)[2] |
![]() | 28,700[citation needed] |
![]() | 16,800[citation needed] |
![]() | 15,200[citation needed] |
![]() | 12,800[citation needed] |
![]() | 11,300[citation needed] |
![]() | 9,600 |
![]() | 7,500[citation needed] |
![]() | 4,500[citation needed] |
![]() | 3,300[citation needed] |
![]() | 2,800[citation needed] |
Languages | |
Nepali (Lingua Franca), Gurung (Tamu kyi, Manangi, Mustangi, Loki), Seke | |
Religion | |
Buddhism (62.7), Bon (2.32%), Christianity (2.12%) Hinduism (32.86%) [3] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Tibetan, Qiang, Tamang, Magar, Thakali, Sherpa |
Gurung people | |||||
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Tibetan name | |||||
Tibetan | ཏམུ | ||||
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Gurung (exonym; Nepali: गुरुङ) or Tamu (endonym; Gurung: རྟམུ) are an ethnic group living in the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal.[4] Gurung people predominantly live around the Annapurna region in Manang, Kaski, Lamjung, Gorkha, districts of Nepal.
They are also scattered across India in Sikkim, Assam, Delhi, West Bengal (Darjeeling area) and other regions with a predominant Nepali diaspora population.[5] They speak the Sino-Tibetan Gurung language and most of them practice the Bon religion alongside Tibetan Buddhism and Hinduism. Gurung has a Sino-Tibetan dialect cluster that is a part of the Tamangic family. The people who speak them are ethnically Tamang, but their languages are too poorly known to be sure. Genetically, Tamang was classified by Shafer as belonging to Gurung Branch of the Bodish Section of the Bodic Division of Tibeto-Burman (1955). The Bakhu is the cultural dress for Gurungs.
The origin of the Gurung people can be traced back to Qiang people located in Qinghai, China. As a result of foreign and Korean Christian missionary activities, some Gurung people have also converted to Christianity.[6]
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