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The Bantawa language is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the eastern Himalayan hills of eastern Nepal by Rai ethnic groups. According to the 2001 National Census at least 1.63% of the Nepal’s total population speaks Bantawa. About 370000 speak Bantawa Language mostly in eastern hilly regions of Nepal (2001). It is experiencing language shift to Nepali.

ISO 639-3 code
bap
family
Kiranti languages, Mahakiranti languages, Tibeto-Burman languages
spoken in
Nepal

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