Alternate Names: Ambule, Caurasia, Chaurasia, Chaurasya, Chourase, Chourasia, Ombule, Tsaurasya, Umbule, Vambucauras Raduyor, Vambule
Dialects: Bonu, Hilepane, Jhappali, Udaipure, Wamdyal. Dialects appear adequately mutually inherently intelligible. Jerung , and Wambule are mutually intelligible (Opgenort 2004). Lexical similarity: 93% with Jerung , (Opgenort 2005).
Status Notes: Language of recognized indigenous nationality: Rai.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 13,500 (2011 census). A few elderly monolinguals.
Language Use: Vigorous. Home, friends, religion; mixed use: Work, education. All ages. Also use Bahing [bhj], Jerung [jee], Nepali [npi].
Language Development: Taught in primary schools. Poetry. Magazines. New media. Videos. Dictionary. Grammar.
Typology: SOV; postpositions; noun head final; no noun classes or genders; content q-word in situ; 1 prefix, up to 4 (word-internal) suffixes and 4 phrasal affixes; clause constituents indicated by case-marking (and verbal marking for agent and patient); verbal affixation marks person and number; ergativity, but an expression of volitionality causes the intransitive subject to have ergative marking; both tense and aspect; no passives or voice; nontonal; 33 consonant and 9 vowel phonemes; ingressive laterals.
Writing System: Devanagari
Nation of Origin: Nepal
Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian, Hindu.