User:Ewr27/sandbox

My name is Eric Reid I am a third year English major at Rutgers University and I am excited to research the endangered Sherpa language of eastern Nepal. I have visited Nepal and hold a deep reverence for the culture and the beautiful Himalayan mountain range that makes this country at once other-worldly and isolated. I was not surprised to see that Nepal is home to no shortage of endangered languages because during my visit there I personally witnessed the variety in dialects between villages. There are hundreds of different ethnicities in Nepal despite the fact that it is a country roughly the same size as the U.S State of Georgia.

The Khumbu region stretches from the Chinese (Tibetan) border in the east to the banks of the Bhotekosi River in the west.

Sherpa is predominately a spoken language, although it is occasionally written in the Tibetan or Devanagari script.

The greatest number of Sherpas live in Nepal and speak Nepali in addition to their own language.

Sherpa (also Sharpa, Xiaerba, Sherwa) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa. The majority speakers of the Sherpa language live in the Khumbu region, spanning from the Chinese (Tibetan) border in the east to the Bhotekosi River in the west. About 200,000 speakers live in Nepal (2001 census), some 20,000 in Sikkim (1997) and some 800 in Tibetan Autonomous Region (1994). Sherpa is a subject-object-verb (SOV) language. Sherpa is predominately a spoken language, although it is occasionally written using either the Devanagari or Tibetan script.