Kulung language (Nepal)

Kulung in some ten villages along the upper reaches of the Huṅga or Hoṅgu River (a tributary of the Dūdhkosī), in Solukhumbu District of Sagarmāthā Zone, Nepal.

Downstream, on both sides of the Huṅga river, in villages that are now called Luchcham, Gudel, Chocholung, Nāmluṅg, Pilmo, Bung, Chhekmā, and Sātdi, less prestigious varieties of Kulung are spoken.

Ethnologue lists the following Kulung villages: Dialects of the Kulung language include Sotang (Sotaring, Sottaring), Mahakulung, Tamachhang, Pidisoi, Chhapkoa, Pelmung, Namlung, and Khambu.

The Kulung verb is characterised by a system of complex pronominalisation, in which paradigmatic stem alternation is found.

Personal endings consist of morphemes expressing notions like tense, agent, patient, number, and exclusivity.

Other verbal constructions found in Kulung are a gerund, imperative, supine and an infinitive.

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