Chepangic languages
The Chepangic languages, Chepang and Bhujel, are Sino-Tibetan languages of uncertain affiliation spoken in Nepal. They are often classified as part of the Mahakiranti or Magaric families (van Driem 2001).
| Chepangic | |
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| Geographic distribution | Nepal |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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| Glottolog | chep1244[1] |
Until recently, the Chepang people were hunter-gatherers.
Classification
Schorer (2016:293)[2] classifies Chepangic as part of his newly proposed Greater Magaric group.
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References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chepangic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Schorer, Nicolas. 2016. The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny. Leiden: Brill.
- George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.
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