Sherpa language

Sherpa
Sherpa
शेर्वी तम्ङे, śērwī tamṅē,; ཤར་པའི་སྐད་ཡིག, shar pa'i skad yig
	'Sherpa' in Devanagari and Tibetan scripts
Native to	Nepal and India
Region	Nepal, Sikkim, Tibet
Ethnicity	Sherpa
Native speakers	170,000 (2001 & 2011 census)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri (?) Bodish Tibetic Southern Tibetic Sherpa ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Tibetan, Devanagari
Official status
Official language in	Nepal; India Sikkim (additional);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xsr
Glottolog	sher1255
ELP	Sherpa
	Sherpa is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Sherpa (also Sharpa, Xiaerba, or Sherwa) is a Tibetic language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa. The majority speakers of the Sherpa language live in the Khumbu region of Nepal, spanning from the Chinese (Tibetan) border in the east to the Bhotekosi River in the west. About 200,000 speakers live in Nepal (2001 census), some 20,000 in Sikkim (1997) and some 800 in Tibetan Autonomous Region (1994). Sherpa is a subject-object-verb (SOV) language. Sherpa is predominantly a spoken language, although it is occasionally written using either the Devanagari or Tibetan script.

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