Baram | |
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Baraamu | |
Region | Nepal |
Ethnicity | 7,400 (2001 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 160 (2011 census)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | brd |
Glottolog | bara1357 |
ELP | Baram |
Baram (Baraamu, Bhramu) is a critically endangered Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Nepal. Speakers are shifting to Nepali. Dialects are Dandagaun and Mailung.
Baram is spoken in Dandagaun and Mailung VDCs in central and southern Gorkha District, Gandaki Province, and in Takhu village up the Doraundi Khola (east side above Chorgate, near Kumhali) (Ethnologue). There are possibly about 7 villages in Dhading District, Bagmati Province.
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Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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East and Southeast Asia |
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Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. |
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