Chepangic languages

Chepangic
Geographic
distribution:
Nepal
Linguistic classification:

Sino-Tibetan

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: chep1244[1]

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.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chepangic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  • George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.


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