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
The Chepang, also known as Chewang, are an Tibeto-Burman ethnic group from the rugged ridges of the Mahabharat mountain range of central Nepal.Beine, Caughley and Shrestha. 2012. Chepang Then and Now: Life and Change Among the Chepang of Nepal. ...
were
hunter-gatherers.
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
The Greater Magaric languages are a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages proposed by Nicolas Schorer (2016). Schorer (2016: 286-287) considers Greater Magaric to be closely related to the Kiranti languages as part of a greater ''Himalayish'' branch, ...
group.
;
Greater Magaric
The Greater Magaric languages are a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages proposed by Nicolas Schorer (2016). Schorer (2016: 286-287) considers Greater Magaric to be closely related to the Kiranti languages as part of a greater ''Himalayish'' branch, ...
*Proto-Dura
**''
Dura
Dura may also refer to: Đura such as, for example, Đura Bajalović
Geography
* Dura language, a critically endangered language of Nepal
* Dura, Africa, an ancient city and former bishopric, now a Catholic titular see
* Dura-Europos, an ancient c ...
''
**''
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. Kha ...
'', ''
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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