Chintang (Chintang: छिन्ताङ् ''Chintāṅ / Chhintang'') is an eastern Kirati language spoken by 5,000 to 6,000 people in Chhintang VDC and

Ahale Ahale is a village development committee in Dhankuta District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics ...

VDC in Dhankuta District,

Province No. 1 Koshi Province () is an autonomous province of Nepal adopted by the Constitution of Nepal on 20 September 2015. It covers an area of , about 17.5% of the country's total area. With the industrial city of Biratnagar as its capital, the province i ...

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 ...

. The language has two dialects, Mulgaun and Sambhugaon. Most speakers of Chintang are also fluent speakers of the Indo-European

Nepali language Nepali (; , ), or ''Gorkhali'' is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official and most widely spoken Languages of Nepal, language of Nepal, where it also serves as a ''lingua fr ...

, which is the lingua franca of Nepal and the sole language of instruction in school, and the Sino-Tibetan

Bantawa language The Bantawa Language (also referred to as An Yüng, Bantaba, Bantawa Dum, Bantawa Yong, Bantawa Yüng, Bontawa, Kirawa Yüng), is a Kiranti language spoken in the eastern Himalayan hills of eastern Nepal by Kirati Bantawa ethnic groups. They us ...

, which is closely related to Chintang. The

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ) is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and International secur ...

World Atlas of Languages classifies the language as '' definitely endangered''.

References

Bibliography

Bickel, Balthasar, G. Banjade, M. Gaenszle, E. Lieven, N. P. Paudyal (2007). Free prefix ordering in Chintang. ''Language'', 83 (1), 43–73.

External links

The Chintang and Puma Documentation Project (DoBeS)The Chintang Language Research Project (CLRP)
Kiranti languages Languages of Nepal Languages of Koshi Province {{st-lang-stub