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Where is Khaling spoken?

Khaling is a Sino-Tibetan language, spoken in India and Nepal. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

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Where Khaling is spoken

Khaling is spoken in 2 countries: India and Nepal.

Country
India
Nepal

On the map, Khaling is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Khaling.

How many people speak Khaling?

Wikidata gives about 15,000 first-language speakers (Ethnologue, 2011). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Khaling sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Khaling as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Sino-Tibetan
  2. Himalayish
  3. Mahakiranti
  4. Kiranti
  5. Upper Dudhkosi
  6. Khaling

Related languages

Other languages in the Upper Dudhkosi group:

More about Khaling

Codes: ISO 639-3 klr, Glottolog khal1275. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Khaling

Where is Khaling spoken?

Khaling is spoken in India and Nepal. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

How many people speak Khaling?

Wikidata gives about 15,000 first-language speakers (Ethnologue, 2011). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Khaling in?

Glottolog places Khaling in the Sino-Tibetan family, in the branch Himalayish, Mahakiranti, Kiranti and Upper Dudhkosi.

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