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The Bantawa Language (also referred to as An Yüng, Bantaba, Bantawa Dum, Bantawa Yong, Bantawa Yüng, Bontawa, Kirawa Yüng), is a Kirati languages spoken in the eastern Himalayan hills of eastern Nepal by Kirati Bantawa ethnic groups. They use a syllabic alphabet system known as Kirat Rai script . Among the Khambu or Rai people of Eastern Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling and Kalimpong in India. Bantawa is the largest language spoken. According to the 2001 National Census, at least 1.63% of the Nepal's total population speaks Bantawa. About 370,000 speak Bantawa Language mostly in eastern hilly regions of Nepal (2001). Although Bantawa is among the more widely used variety of the Bantawa language, it falls in the below-100,000 category of endangered languages. It is experiencing language shift to N

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  • The Bantawa Language (also referred to as An Yüng, Bantaba, Bantawa Dum, Bantawa Yong, Bantawa Yüng, Bontawa, Kirawa Yüng), is a Kirati languages spoken in the eastern Himalayan hills of eastern Nepal by Kirati Bantawa ethnic groups. They use a syllabic alphabet system known as Kirat Rai script . Among the Khambu or Rai people of Eastern Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling and Kalimpong in India. Bantawa is the largest language spoken. According to the 2001 National Census, at least 1.63% of the Nepal's total population speaks Bantawa. About 370,000 speak Bantawa Language mostly in eastern hilly regions of Nepal (2001). Although Bantawa is among the more widely used variety of the Bantawa language, it falls in the below-100,000 category of endangered languages. It is experiencing language shift to Nepali, especially in the northern region. Bantawa is spoken in subject-object-verb order, and has no noun classes or genders. (en)
  • A língua Bantawa está em processo de extinção. É um idioma Tibeto-Birmanês, membro das Kiranti, falada nas colina do Himalaia do leste do Nepal pelos . Mesmo com a informação de Ethnologue de mais de 300 mil falantes, estimativas menos otimistas indicam algo entre 20 e 60 mil falantes, pois muitos dos Raí vêm adotando cada vez mais a Língua nepali. (pt)
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  • Bantawa Kirawa (en)
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  • Bantawic (en)
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  • The word :Bantawa language written in Kirat Rai script (en)
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  • Bantawa (en)
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  • * Province No. 1 * Sikkim (en)
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  • बान्तावा (en)
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  • A língua Bantawa está em processo de extinção. É um idioma Tibeto-Birmanês, membro das Kiranti, falada nas colina do Himalaia do leste do Nepal pelos . Mesmo com a informação de Ethnologue de mais de 300 mil falantes, estimativas menos otimistas indicam algo entre 20 e 60 mil falantes, pois muitos dos Raí vêm adotando cada vez mais a Língua nepali. (pt)
  • The Bantawa Language (also referred to as An Yüng, Bantaba, Bantawa Dum, Bantawa Yong, Bantawa Yüng, Bontawa, Kirawa Yüng), is a Kirati languages spoken in the eastern Himalayan hills of eastern Nepal by Kirati Bantawa ethnic groups. They use a syllabic alphabet system known as Kirat Rai script . Among the Khambu or Rai people of Eastern Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling and Kalimpong in India. Bantawa is the largest language spoken. According to the 2001 National Census, at least 1.63% of the Nepal's total population speaks Bantawa. About 370,000 speak Bantawa Language mostly in eastern hilly regions of Nepal (2001). Although Bantawa is among the more widely used variety of the Bantawa language, it falls in the below-100,000 category of endangered languages. It is experiencing language shift to N (en)
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