Puma ( pum. पुम ा, Pumā ) is the language of the small Puma people. Belongs to the language family Kiranti . Distributed in the territories of the Khotang and Udayapur districts of the Sagarmatha zone of the Republic of Nepal . The total number of carriers is 4,310 (report of the Central Bureau of Statistics, 2001).
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| Self name | पुमा ['pumaː] |
| Country | Nepal |
| Regions | Khotang Districts, Udayapur ( Sagarmatha ) |
| Total number of speakers | 4,310 |
| Status | endangered |
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| Category | Languages of Eurasia |
Sino-Tibetan
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| ISO 639-1 | - |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-3 | pum |
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As part of the Himalayan Languages Project , the first data on the grammar of the Puma language was collected. The language is poorly understood and is in danger of extinction.