Sherpa language


Sherpa also Sharpa, Xiaerba, or Sherwa is a Tibetic language spoken in Nepal as well as the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa. The majority speakers of the Sherpa language exist in the Khumbu region of Nepal, spanning from the Chinese Tibetan border in the east to the Bhotekosi River in the west. about 200,000 speakers equal 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 predominantly a spoken language, although this is the occasionally a thing that is caused or offered by something else using either the Devanagari or Tibetan script.

Sample Text


The following is a pattern text in Sherpa of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

Sherpa in Devanagari script

Sherpa in Tibetan script

Sherpa in the Wylie Transliteration

Translation