Sunwar language

Sunuwar
Sunuwar
सुनुवार, कोँइच, किराँती-कोँइच, मुखिया
	'Kõica' in Jenticha script; 'Sunuwar' in Tikamuli and Devanagari script
Region	Nepal;; India (Sikkim and West Bengal)
Ethnicity	Sunuwar
Native speakers	37,898 (2011)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Mahakiranti (?) Kiranti Western Northwestern Sunuwar; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Surel;
Writing system	Devanagari; Sunuwar (Sikkim, India); Tikamuli (2005)
Official status
Official language in	India Sikkim (additional);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	suz
Glottolog	sunw1242
ELP	Sunwar

Sunwar greeting

Sunuwar, Sunuwar, or Kõinch (कोँइच; kõich; other spellings are Koinch and Koincha), is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken in Nepal and India by the Sunuwar people. It was first comprehensively attested by the Himalayan Languages Project. It is also known as Kõits Lo (कोँइच लो ; kõica lo), Kiranti-Kõits (किराँती-कोँइच ; kirā̃tī-kõich), Mukhiya (मुखिया ; mukhiyā).^[2]^[3]

The Sunwar language is one of the smaller members of the Tibeto-Burman language family. About 40,000 speakers are residing in eastern Nepal.

^ 2011 Nepal Census, Social Characteristics Tables
^ Ager, Simon. "Sunuwar alphabet". Omniglot. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
^ Borchers, Dörte (2008). A grammar of Sunwar: descriptive grammar, paradigms, texts and glossary ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). Leiden: Brill. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-90-04-16709-4.

[1] 2011 Nepal Census, Social Characteristics Tables

[OG-Sunuwar-2] Ager, Simon. "Sunuwar alphabet". Omniglot. Retrieved 8 December 2021.

[Borchers_1–2-3] Borchers, Dörte (2008). A grammar of Sunwar: descriptive grammar, paradigms, texts and glossary ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). Leiden: Brill. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-90-04-16709-4.

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