| Sunuwar | |
|---|---|
| सुनुवार, कोइँच, किराँती-कोइँच, मुखिया | |
   'Kõica' in Jenticha script; 'Sunuwar' in Tikamuli and Devanagari script | |
| Region | Nepal; India (Sikkim and West Bengal) |
| Ethnicity | Sunuwar |
Native speakers | 37,898 (2011)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Dialects |
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| Devanagari Sunuwar (Sikkim, India) Tikamuli (2005) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  India
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | suz |
| Glottolog | sunw1242 |
| ELP | Sunwar |
Sunwar, Sunuwar, or Koinch (कोइँच; kõich; other spellings are Koinch and Koincha), is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken in Nepal and India by the Sunuwar people. It was first comprehensively attested by the Himalayan Languages Project. It is also known as Kõits Lo (कोइँच लो ; kõica lo), Kiranti-Kõits (किराँती-कोइँच ; kirā̃tī-kõich), Mukhiya (मुखिया ; mukhiyā).[2][3]
The Sunwar language is one of the smaller members of the Tibeto-Burman language family. About 40,000 speakers are residing in eastern Nepal.
- ^ 2011 Nepal Census, Social Characteristics Tables
- ^ Ager, Simon. "Sunuwar alphabet". Omniglot. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
- ^ Borchers, Dörte (2008). A grammar of Sunwar: descriptive grammar, paradigms, texts and glossary ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). Leiden: Brill. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-90-04-16709-4.