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Sherpa

Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Sherpa community
Class type of: Tibetic Q36612

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[5]
Country
People's Republic of China, India, Nepal[2][3][4]
Subclass of
Tibetic[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 27.750°, 86.833°
Ethnologue language status
5 Developing[19]
Indigenous to
Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal, Bagmati Zone, Janakpur Zone, Sagarmatha Zone[13][14][15][16][17][18]
Linguistic typology
subject–object–verb[20]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+150000, +16012[9][10]
Topic has template
Wikidata item[11]
UNESCO language status
2 vulnerable[12]
Writing system
Tibetan script, Devanagari[7][8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Sherpa en Sherpa language cs šerpština fi šerpa fi šerpan kieli he שרפה hi शेर्पा भाषा id bahasa Sherpa it lingua sherpa it sherpa ja シェルパ語 ko 셰르파어 pl Język szerpa pt lingua sherpa pt Língua xerpa ru кангпо ru шерпа ru шерпский ru шерпский язык th ภาษาเชอร์ปา
🔖 Identifiers · 14
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Sherpa-language
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
5690
Ethnologue.com language code
xsr
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/095hhk
Glottolog code
sher1255
IETF language tag
xsr
ISO 639-3 code
xsr
J9U entity ID
987007536431505171
Lex ID
sherpa_-_sproget
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
1715487
Topic's main category
Category:Sherpa language
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UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ID
1128
WALS lect code
she

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🔗 Connections
← Language used 10
India, People's Republic of China, Nepal, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Sherpa, Bagmati Zone +2 more
Indigenous to 6
West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Bagmati Zone, Sagarmatha Zone, Janakpur Zone
Country 3
India, People's Republic of China, Nepal
Instance of 2
language, modern language
Writing system 2
Devanagari, Tibetan script
← Language of work or name 2
Devanagari, Tibetan script
Linguistic typology 1
subject–object–verb
Subclass of 1
Tibetic
Topic's main category 1
Category:Sherpa language
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Sherpa lemmas
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Sherpa language
← Languages spoken, written or signed 1
Tenzing Norgay
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Summary

Sherpa is a language[1].

Related Entities

India Nepal People's Republic of China Tenzing Norgay

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → People's Republic of China, India, Nepal
    Indigenous to → Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal +1
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → 150,000, 16,012
    Category for films in this language → Category:Sherpa-language films
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007536431505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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