Shumcho is an underdocumented

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language spoken in

Kinnaur district Kinnaur district () is a mountainous district located in the northeast part of the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. Kinnaur district borders Tibet (China) to the east, the state of Uttarakhand to the south, Shimla district to the southwest, K ...

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. Shumcho speakers make up a majority of the population in the villages of Kanam, Labrang, Spillo, Shyaso, Rushkalang and Taling. They also reside in the mixed villages of Sunnam, Jangi, Lippa and Asrang where they belong to the lower Scheduled Caste. Upper-caste Scheduled Tribe dwellers of the same villages speak related but distinct languages,

Sunam Sunam is a town and a tehsil, near city of Sangrur iSangrur districtin the Indian state of Punjab. The Railway Station of Sunam was renamed as Sunam Udham Singh Wala. History Sunam is listed in the Ain-i-Akbari as a pargana under the sarkar ...

and Jangshung.

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