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Language: Gurung

Estimated Global Speakers

376,000

People Groups Speaking as Primary Language

Scripture Status

New Testament

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People Group ▲	Country	Country Population	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Gurung Ghaleg	Bangladesh	1,200	630,000	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Gurung Ghaleg	Nepal	511,000	630,000	●	Buddhism	2 ●	5.00 %	-1	-1 -
Totals: 2						1 ●			1

* An estimate of the number of pioneer workers needed for initial church planting among unreached people groups by country. Estimates are calculated only for unreached people groups and are based on ratio of 1 worker-unit (single person or married couple) per 50,000 living in an unreached people group by country, or for example one team of four worker-units per 200,000 people. Some workers may already be onsite. Many more workers are needed beyond this initial estimate.

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People Group ▲	Country	Population	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Gurung Ghale	Nepal	22,000	22,000	●	Buddhism	2 ●	6.40 %	-1	-1 -
Gurung Ghaleg	Bhutan	9,700	630,000		Buddhism	1 ●	3.87 %	-1	1
Gurung Ghaleg	India	108,000	630,000	●	Hinduism	2 ●	13.23 %	-1	-1 -
Tangbe	Nepal	600	600	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Totals: 4						2 ●			2

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Item	Value
Status	Living
Ethnologue Code	gvr
Written	Yes
Bible Translation	New Testament
Progress Scale	●

Language Alternate Names
Daduwa
Gurung Kura
Khas Kura
Northwestern Gurung (Kaski Gurung)
Southern Gurung (Syangja Gurung)
Tamu Kyi
Western Gurung

Dialects
Central dialect of Gurung
Gorkha
Kaski
Lamjung
Pokhra
Syangja
Western

Dialect Alternate Names
Baglung
BaglungGurung
Gorkha Gurung
Gurung, Eastern
Gurung, Eastern: Gorkha
Gurung, Eastern: Lamjung Gurung
Gurung, Western: Northwestern Gurung
Gurung, Western: Southern Gurung
Gurung: Baglung
Gurung: Gorkha
Gurung: Kaski
Gurung: Lamjung
Gurung: Pokhara
Gurung: Southern Gurung
Gurung: Syangja
Gurung: Western Gurung
Lamjung
Lamjung Gurung
Northwestern Gurung
Pokhara
PokharaGurung
Southern Gurung
Western Gurung

Translation	Year / Status
Bible Portions	1972-2010
New Testament	1982
Complete Bible	None Reported

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Resource ▲	Link
Audio Recordings	Audio Bible teaching (GRN)
Audio Recordings	Story of Jesus audio (Jesus Film Project)
Film / Video	God's Story Video
Film / Video	Jesus Film: view in Gurung
Text / Printed Matter	Online Bible text (Scripture Earth)
Text / Printed Matter	The Ancient Path (Western Gurung)

The Joshua Project Progress Scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language. The Progress Scale is derived from people group values for percent Evangelical and percent Christian Adherent.

Level	Description	Criteria
1	Unreached - Few evangelicals and few who identify as Christians. Little, if any, history of Christianity.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians <= 5%
2	Minimally reached - Few evangelicals, but significant number who identify as Christians.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
3	Superficially reached - Few evangelicals, but many who identify as Christians. In great need of spiritual renewal and commitment to biblical faith.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 50%
4	Partially reached - Evangelicals have a modest presence.	Evangelicals > 2% and <= 10%
5	Significantly reached - Evangelicals have a significant presence.	Evangelicals > 10%

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Joshua Project data is drawn from many sources and of varying accuracy depending on source and editorial decisions. Populations are scaled to the current year. Other data may have varying ages. We welcome suggested updates.
A displayed zero can mean true zero, a very small rounded number or sometimes unknown. Blanks mean an unknown value.
The data is sometimes not as precise as it appears. Values for %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical (which determine unreached status) are often informed estimates, some more accurate than others. We recommend against using %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical to calculate absolute numbers.
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