Kulung is a distinct community
According to the academician Dr. Harka Gurung 'the basis of a community is its mother tongue/language, and this has to be and this is what is the very self-identity'. This is an idea expressed in an interaction program organized by National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities (NFDIN) in connection with the budget of fiscal year 2060/61 in the social context of Dalit, Janajati and women. From this perspective, the language of the Kulung community spoken since thime immemorial is still in existence and, thus, this community can be considered as a separate caste.

As stated by Joseph Stalin in the context of Marxism and community a community means which is built upon the expression based in the form of a psychological expression in a common language, territory, economic life and culture, historically established and firm. The Kulung community is a permanent one residing in the Mahakulung area since the first time their ancestors had cultivated the area, being officiated to a common language, culture and economic activities and demonstrating psychological unity among themselves. This definition also justifies that the Kulungs are a separate community.

In the extensive Nepal Dictionary ( Brihat Nepali Shabdakosh) brought out by the Royal Nepal Academy (p.486-487) has defined, community as a part of human race distinguished on the basis of nationality and geographical territory. The same dictionary (p.1141) has defined, nationality as the condition of a state or oneness. What transpires from this definition is that the Kulung community has its own separate mother tongue and so has it its own-ness or individual characteristics. The constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal 1990 hasgiven recognition to the mother tongue as a 'national language', by which a community having a national language seems to have by itself an identity of nationality.By the territorial integrity of the Kulung community in the Mahakulung area as described under historical land above, is still intact. Thus the Kulung community has separate identity even on the basis of nationality and geographical i\territory, so they are justified to be a separate community.