The Chepangic languages,
Chepang and
Bhujel, are
Sino-Tibetan languages
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages ...
of uncertain affiliation spoken in Nepal. They are often classified as part of the
Mahakiranti or
Magaric families (van Driem 2001).
Until recently, the
Chepang people were
hunter-gatherer
A traditional hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living an ancestrally derived lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local sources, especially edible wild plants but also insects, fung ...
s.
Classification
Schorer (2016:293)
[Schorer, Nicolas. 2016. ''The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny''. Leiden: Brill.] classifies Chepangic as part of his newly proposed
Greater Magaric group.
;
Greater Magaric
*Proto-Dura
**''
Dura''
**''
Tandrange''
*
Magaric: ''
Kham
Kham (; )
is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast, and Ü-Tsang in central Tibet. The original residents of Kham are called Khampas (), and were governed locally by chieftains and monasteries. Kham ...
'', ''
Magar''
*Chepangic-Raji
**Chepangic: ''
Chepang'', ''
Bhujel''
**
Raji-Raute: ''
Raji'', ''
Raute'', ''
Rawat''
References
* George van Driem (2001) ''Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region.'' Brill.
Magaric languages
Languages of Nepal
Mahakiranti languages
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