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Gurung (also, ''Tamu Kyi'', Devanagari:तमु क्यी) is spoken by the Gurung people in two dialects with limited mutual intelligibility. Total number of all Gurung speakers in Nepal is 227,918 (1991 census). However, a distinction should be made between Gurung as an ethnic group and the number of people who actually speak the language. Nepali, Nepal's official language, is an Indo-European language, whereas Gurung is a Sino-Tibetan language. Gurung are recognized as an official nationality by the Government of Nepal. == Grammar == Some miscellaneous grammatical features of the Gurung languages are; *SOV; *postpositions; *genitives; *adjectives relatives before noun heads; *numerals after noun heads; *rising intonation in bipolar questions; *1 prefix on negative verbs; *maximum number of suffixes 3; *case of noun phrase shown by preposition; *no subject or object referencing in verbs; *split ergative system according to tense; *causatives; *benefactives; *CV, CCV, CCCV; Phonetically, Gurung languages are tonal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gurung language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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