ᤕᤠᤁᤰᤂᤠ याक्खा | |
|---|---|
 Yakkha women in traditional dress | |
| Total population | |
 Nepal 17,460 (2021)[1] | |
 India | |
| Sikkim | 193 (2006)[2] |
| Languages | |
| Yakkha language, Nepali | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: •Kiratism 81% Others: •Hinduism 11.50% [3] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
Yakkha or Dewan (Nepali याक्खा, Yākkhā) is an indigenous ethnic group from the Indian subcontinent, mainly in modern-day Nepal and present-day India (related to other Kirat groups, like the Limbu, Sunuwar, Rai, and more distantly all other Sino-Tibetan peoples). It is one of the descendants of Nepal's prehistoric Kirat dynasty. The Yakkha people are subsistence farmers who inhabit the lower Arun valley in eastern Nepal. They number only a few thousand and their language is nearly extinct.[4][5]
- ^ "National Population and Housing Census 2021". Central Bureau of Statistics, Government of Nepal.
- ^ "Linguistic and Religious Minorities under SSP Led Government" (PDF).
- ^ "Caste ethnicity and religion of Nepal Ministry of Health" (PDF).
- ^ K. David Harrison When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the ... Page 172 2007 "The Yakkha people are subsistence farmers who number only a few thousand and inhabit the lower Arun valley in eastern Nepal."
- ^ Mark-Anthony Falzon Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis, and Locality in ... Page 5 - 2009 "5 He proceeded to do multi-sited fieldwork with Yakkha people in Tamaphok, Nepal, and various migrant destinations in India and elsewhere."