Kagatay (other)
Kagate or Kagatay may refer to: * Kagate people, a Tibetan people of Nepal,Sikkim (India), Tibet (China) * Kagate language, their language See also * Kyirong-Kagate language * Çağatay Çağatay is a Turkish masculine name. It is also used as a family name. Chagatai Khan ( Çağatay Han in Turkish) was a son of Genghis Khan. Chagatai ruled the Chagatai Khanate from 1226 to 1242 C.E. Given name * Akif Çağatay Kılıç (born 1 ...

Kagate People
The Yolmo or Hyolmo (Tibetic: ཡོལ་མོ་) are a people mainly from the Eastern Himalaya, Eastern and Northern Himalayan Regions of Nepal called Helambu. They refer to themselves as the "''Yolmowa''" or "''Yolmopa''" and are native residents of the Helambu valleys (Melamchigyang, Nakote, Tarkegyang, Sermathang) (situated over 43.4 kilometres/27 miles and 44.1 kilometres/27.4 miles to the north of Kathmandu respectively) and the surrounding regions of Northeastern Nepal. The combined population in these regions is around 11,000. They also have sizeable communities in Bhutan, Darjeeling, Sikkim and some regions of South-Western Tibet. They are among the 59 indigenous groups officially recognized by the Government of Nepal as having a distinct cultural identity and are also listed as one of the 645 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Tribes of India. The Yolmo people speak the Yolmo language of the Kyirong language, Kyirong branch of the Sino-Tibetan language fam ...
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Kagate Language
Kagate or Syuba is a language from the subgroup of Tibetic languagesN. Tournadre (2005) "L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes." ''Lalies'', 2005, n°25, p. 7–5/ref> spoken by the Kagate people primarily in the Ramechhap District, Ramechhap district of Nepal. Language name ''Kagate'' is an exonym. It is the Nepali word for the occupation of 'papermaker', reflecting an earlier occupation of the community. This is the name under which the language was documented in Grierson's 1909 linguistic survey of India, and by which it is classified in the ISO 639-3 code. Speakers now prefer the endonym ''Syuba,'' which also refers to the occupation of papermaker. This name is mentioned in documentation literature from the 1970s, and speakers are now using this form more actively, see as an example the Syuba-Nepali-English dictionary. History Kagate speakers migrated from the Yolmo area of Helambu around 100–200 years ago. This was likely the result of populat ...
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