Dura is the name of a critically endangered language of Nepal, and of the ethnic group that has historically spoken it. It has been classified in the West Bodish group of Tibeto-Burman languages, though more recent work classifies it as its own independent group within Tibeto-Burman. Many of the Dura have switched to speaking Nepali, and the Dura language has sometimes been thought to be extinct.

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  • Dura is the name of a critically endangered language of Nepal, and of the ethnic group that has historically spoken it. It has been classified in the West Bodish group of Tibeto-Burman languages, though more recent work classifies it as its own independent group within Tibeto-Burman. Many of the Dura have switched to speaking Nepali, and the Dura language has sometimes been thought to be extinct. Some of the people who have switched to Nepali for their daily speech still use Dura only for saying prayers. The ethnic Dura people mostly live in the Lamjung District, with some in the neighboring Tanahu District, of the Gandaki Zone of central Nepal. They mostly live on farms in hilly country. Different recent census counts have reported the number of Dura people anywhere from 3,397 to . The Himalayan Languages Project is working on recording additional knowledge of Dura. Around 1,500 words and 250 sentences in Dura have been recorded. The last known speaker of the language is the 82-year old Soma Devi Dura.
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  • Dura is the name of a critically endangered language of Nepal, and of the ethnic group that has historically spoken it. It has been classified in the West Bodish group of Tibeto-Burman languages, though more recent work classifies it as its own independent group within Tibeto-Burman. Many of the Dura have switched to speaking Nepali, and the Dura language has sometimes been thought to be extinct.
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