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Sherpa
Spoken in	Nepal, Tibet, Kashmir
Total speakers	ca. 150,000 (2000)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Tibeto-Kanauri Bodish Tibetan Central Tibetan Southern Sherpa
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	xsr
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Sherpa (ཤེརཔཱ , Devnagari: शेर्पा; also Sharpa, Sharpa Bhotia, Xiaerba, Serwa; ISO 639-3: xsr) is a language spoken in parts of Nepal and Sikkim mainly by the Sherpa community. About 130,000 speakers live in Nepal (2001 census), some 20,000 in India (1997), and some 800 in Tibet (1994).

Days of the Week in Sherpa

English	Sherpa
Sunday	Ngi`ma (Ng' is the phoneme / ŋ /.)
Monday	Dawa
Tuesday	Mingma
Wednesday	Lhakpa
Thursday	Phurba
Friday	Pasang
Saturday	Pemba

Note that the above days of the week is derived from Tibetan language ("Pur-gae").

Sherpa is an SOV language.

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