Chepangic languages
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Sino-Tibetan subfamily of central Nepal
| Chepangic | |
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| Geographic distribution | Nepal |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| 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,[when? ] the Chepang people were hunter-gatherers.
Classification
[edit ]Schorer (2016:293)[1] classifies Chepangic as part of his newly proposed Greater Magaric group.
References
[edit ]- ^ 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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