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Vayu

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Summary

Vayu is a language[1]. Vayu ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Nepal[3]
  • Instance of: modern language[4]
  • Subclass of: Kiranti[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Vayu language[6]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1500[7]
  • UNESCO language status: 5 critically endangered[8]
  • Indigenous to: Janakpur Zone[9]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/VAY[10]
  • Ethnologue language status: 6b Threatened[11]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[12]

Why It Matters

Vayu is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Nepal

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . ethnologue.com. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Estopedist1 · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → language, modern language
    Ethnologue language status → 6b Threatened
    Unesco language status → 5 critically endangered
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → {'amount': '+1500'}
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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