Ghale language

Ghale
Native to	Nepal
Native speakers	26,000 (2006)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Tamangic? Ghale languages Ghale
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: ghh – Northern ghe – Southern
Glottolog	nort2709  (Northern)[2] sout2715  (Southern)[3]

Ghale is a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal. It belongs to the group of Ghale languages. The dialects of Ghale have limited intelligibility: (south) Barpak, Kyaura, Laprak, (north) Khorla, Uiya, Jagat, Philim, Nyak

Dialects

Ethnologue divides Ghale into the Northern and Southern varieties.

• Northern Ghale (4,440 speakers as of 2006) is spoken in Buri Gandaki valley in Gorkha District, Gandaki Zone. Dialects are Khorla, Uiya, Jagat, Philim, and Nyak.
• Southern Ghale (21,500 speakers as of 2006) is spoken in the hills south of Macha Khola in Gorkha District, Gandaki Zone. Dialects are Barpak, Kyaura, and Laprak.

References

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