Magar Kaike is a

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of Nepal. ''Ethnologue'' classifies it as a West

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language. Kaike is spoken in Shahartara, Tupatara, Tarakot, and Belawa villages of Sahartara VDC,

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, Nepal ('' Ethnologue''). Honda (2008) notes that Kaike shares many words with Tamangic, but is not part of Tamangic proper. It is also in contact with Tichurong, a divergent

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lect spoken near the Kaike-speaking areas.Honda, Isao. 2018
Preliminary report on Tichyurong Tibetan (Dolpa, Nepal)
''Proceedings of the 51st International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (2018)''. Kyoto: Kyoto University.

Lexicon

Honda (2008) lists the following Kaike words.

References

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