Sherpa, Sherpa: ཤར་པའི་སྐད Wylie is a Tibetic language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa. The majority of 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 245,000 speakers live in Nepal, some 25,000 in Sikkim, India (2011), 11,000 speakers live in Bhutan and some 47,000 in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (2020). 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.
- Country
- People's Republic of China, India, Nepal
