Kusunda or Kusanda (endonym Gemehaq gipan Kusunda: ⓘ ⓘ [1]) is a language isolate spoken by a few among the Kusunda people in western and central Nepal. As of 2023, it only has a single fluent speaker, Kamala Khatri Sen, [3] although there are …

The Kusunda (Nepali: कुसुन्डा जाति) or Ban Raja ("people of the forest"), known to themselves as the Mihaq or Myahq or Myahak), [2] are a tribe of former hunter-gatherers of the forests of western Nepal, who are now intermarried with neighboring peoples and settled in …

Aug 10, 2022 · Nepal's Kusunda language has no known origin and a number of quirks, like no words for "yes" or "no". It also has only one fluent speaker left, something linguists are racing to change.

May 13, 2023 · The Kusunda language is not related to any other language group in South Asia, and has only one native speaker still alive: Kamala Khatri Sen in Dang district. Decades of social exclusion has nearly obliterated this ethnic group.

Oct 3, 2021 · Kusunda is a language isolate spoken in southern Rolpa District Lumbini province in west-central Nepal. In 2014 there were 87 speakers of Kusunda. By 2018 there was only one known speaker Rajamama Kusunda, who died on 19 April 2018 and it was thought that the language had become extinct.

The Kusunda (Nepali: कुसुन्डा जाति) or Ban Raja ("people of the forest"), known to themselves as the Mihaq or Myahq or Myahak), are a tribe of former hunter-gatherers of the forests of western Nepal, who are now intermarried with neighboring peoples and settled in villages. Quick Facts Total population, Regions with significant populations ...

Mar 31, 2004 · The Kusunda people of central Nepal have long been regarded as a relic tribe of South Asia. They are, or were until recently, seminomadic hunter-gatherers, living in jungles and forests, with a lan...

Cultural Protection Fund grantees Archive Nepal will launch पिन्डा (First), a groundbreaking compilation of Kusunda literature, on 21 February, Mother Tongue Language Day.

"Gyani Maya Kusunda, one of the two fluent mother-tongue speakers from a nearly extinct language, died last year in her hometown Lamahi, Dang in western Nepal."

Jan 15, 2021 · The Kusunda are a little-known group of hunter-gatherers who may help us understand the pre-Hindu civilization in India. This tiny people somehow managed to hold onto their distinctiveness in the remote jungles of Nepal: their language is unrelated to any other.