| Chepangic | |
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| Geographic distribution | Nepal |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Glottolog | chep1244 |
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).
Until recently, the Chepang people were hunter-gatherers.
Classification
Schorer (2016:293) [1] classifies Chepangic as part of his newly proposed Greater Magaric group.
References
- ^ 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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Himalayas ( Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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Himalayas ( Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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Dubious (possible
isolates) ( Arunachal) |
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