Chhantyal is spoken by approximately 2,000 of the 10,000 ethnic
Chhantyal in
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
. Chhantyal is spoken in the
Kali Gandaki River
The Gandaki River, also known as the Narayani and Gandak, is one of the major rivers in Nepal and a left-bank tributary of the Ganges in India. Its total catchment area is , most of it in Nepal. In the Nepal Himalayas, the Gandaki is notable f ...
valley of
Myagdi District
Myagdi District ( ), a part of Gandaki Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Beni as its district headquarters, covers an area of , had a population of 114,447 in 2001 and 113,641 in 2011. Magar people e ...
; there are also ethnic Chantel in
Baglung District
Baglung District ( ), a part of Gandaki Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Baglung as its district headquarters, covers an area of and has a population (2011) of 268,613.
Introduction
Baglung is surrou ...
(''Ethnologue'').
The Chhantyal language is a member of the
Tamangic group (along with Gurung, Thakali, Manangba,
Nar-Phu and Tamang) of the
Sino-Tibetan family. Within its group, it is lexically and grammatically closest to
Thakali.
References
External links
The Chantyal language and peopleThe Chantyal language
by Michael Noonan
The fall and rise and fall of the Chantyal language
by Michael Noonan
Languages of Nepal
Tamangic languages
Languages written in Devanagari
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