Tichurong or Tichyurong, is a

Sino-Tibetan Sino-Tibetan (also referred to as Trans-Himalayan) is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 ...

word to describe people living in now Kaike Rural Municipality, Dolpa, karnali. Ti means summit of the mount Kailash, chu means water which flows from the mount Kailash and Rong indicates people living in lower altitude where variety crops are grown, forest can be found and much warmer place .

Demographics

It is spoken in the villages of Gumbatara, Gufa, Rukha, Kola, Tachin, Khani, Khani Gumba, Namdel, Baijibara, Syala, Vyas, Banthada, Chilpara, Dharapani and Lawan. As of 2000, the language was spoken by 2,420 individuals.

References

Languages of Nepal Sino-Tibetan languages {{sinoTibetan-lang-stub