Bhujel, also called Bujhyal, is a Chepangic language of Greater Magaric Branch spoken in central

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. It is a semi-

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, employing a complex array of

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es. Bhujel are from Tibetan burman family. Bhujel people normally are with Mongoloid features rather than with Caucasoid features. Due to the social structure & social development, this term has been the identity of many other ethnic people too. Tanahun_Gandaki_locator

Geographical distribution

Bhujel is spoken in the following villages of Nepal (''

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Tanahun District Tanahun District ( , or ), a part of Gandaki Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district lies in central Nepal, with Damauli as its district headquarters. It covers an area of and has a population (2011) of 323,288. ...

, Gandaki Zone: Kulmun, Arthumpka, Andimul, and Baniyatar *

Gorkha District Gorkha District (), a part of Gandaki Province, is one of seventy-seven districts of Nepal, and the fourth largest district of the country in terms of area. It is historically linked with the creation of modern Nepal and the name of the legenda ...

, Gandaki Zone: Beltar *

Nawalparasi District Nawalparasi District (, ), part of which belongs to Gandaki Province and part to Lumbini Province, was one of the 75 districts of Nepal before being divided into Parasi District and Nawalpur District in 2015. The district, with Parasi as i ...

Lumbini Zone Lumbini () was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructure of zones to provinces. Within the zone is the city of Lumbini, widely believed to be the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism and renowned as a major ...

: Dhodeni *

Chitwan District Chitwan District (, , ) is one of seventy-seven districts of Nepal, and takes up the southwestern corner of Bagmati Province. Bharatpur, largest city of Nepal after Kathmandu, is its administrative centre. It covers , and in 2011 had a popul ...

Narayani Zone Narayani () was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructuring of zones to Provinces, located in the central south of the country. The headquarter of Narayani zone was Hetauda. Narayani Zone is named after the Narayani River which i ...

: Chanaute

Dialects

'' lists the following dialects of Bhujel. *Kulmun *Arthumpka *Andimul *Baniyatar *Beltar *Dhodeni *Chanaute

References

Magaric languages Languages of Nepal {{st-lang-stub