Hayu

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The Hayus ({{langx|ne|हायु}}) are a member of the Kirat tribe speaking their own language, Wayu or Hayu. Little is known about them. They are Hindus by religion. According to the 2001 Nepal census, there are 1821 Hayu in the country, of which 70.29% were Hindus and 23.61% were animists.

The Hayu language has been documented by the linguist Boyd Michailovsky.{{Cite book|title = Hayu entry in: The Sino-Tibetan Languages|last = Michailovsky|first = Boyd|publisher = Routledge|year = 2003|location = London & New York|pages = 518–532|editor-last = Thurgood & LaPolla}} The language currently appears in Wikipedia as 'Vayu'.

References

{{cite encyclopedia

| last = Nishi 西

| first = Yoshio 義郎

|author-link=Yoshio Nishi

| editor1-first = 孝 Takashi

| editor1-last = 亀井 Kamei

| editor2-first = 六郎 Rokurō

| editor2-last = 河野 Kōno

| editor3-first = 栄一 Eichi

| editor3-last = 千野 Chino

| encyclopedia = 三省堂言語学大辞典 The Sanseido Encyclopaedia of Linguistics

| title = ハユ語

| trans-title = Hayu, Hai, Vayu, (LSI) Hāyu, Vāyu

| language = ja

| year = 1992a

| publisher = 三省堂 Sanseido Press

| volume = 3

| location = Tokyo

| isbn = 4385152179

| pages = 253a-269a

}}

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070628141710/http://www.nepaldemocracy.org/ethnicity/nationalities_of_nepal.htm Nationalities of Nepal]
[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=vay Ethnologue profile]
[http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/pangloss/languages/Hayu_en.htm Transcribed, annotated and translated recordings of narratives in Hayu], from the Pangloss Collection

Category:Ethnic groups in Nepal