The language of the same name, Kusunda, spoken by a small indigenous tribe in Nepal, the Kusunda, is considered unique by linguists , it is not related to all known languages, its origin is unknown, it lacks negative sentences, no words for “yes” or “no”, and There is no vocabulary for direction. According to the 2011 Nepal census, there are currently only 273 Kusunda people, of which only one 48-year-old woman, Kamala Khatri, speaks the Kusunda language fluently. The Kusunda are highly marginalized and impoverished in Nepal, and most live in the Dang district in the west. To protect this language, the Nepalese Language Council has been running Kusunda language courses since 2019.
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