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Yakkha (also erroneously spelled as Yakha) is a language spoken in parts of Nepal Darjeeling district and Sikkim. The Yakkha-speaking villages are located to the East of the Arun river in the southern part of the Sankhuwasabha district and in the northern part of the Dhankuta district of Nepal. About 14000 people still speak the language out of 17003 ethnic Yakkha in Nepal.

ISO 639-3 code
ybh
family
Kiranti languages, Tibeto-Burman languages
spoken in
Nepal, Sikkim

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