Baram language

Baram
Baraamu
Region Nepal
Ethnicity 7,400 (2001 census)[1]
Native speakers
160 (2011 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 brd
Glottolog bara1357[2]

Baram (Baraamu, Bhramu) is a small Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Nepal. Speakers are shifting to Nepali. Dialects are Dandagaun and Mailung.

Locations

Baram is spoken in Dandagaun and Mailung VDCs in central and southern Gorkha District, Gandaki Zone, and in Takhu village up the Doraundi Khola (east side above Chorgate, near Kumhali) (Ethnologue). There are possibly about 7 villages in Dhading District.

References

  1. 1 2 Baram at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Baraamu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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