Chepangic languages

Chepangic
Geographic distribution	Nepal
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Greater Magaric Chepangic
Subdivisions	Chepang Bujhyal
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

Schorer (2016:293) ^[1] classifies Chepangic as part of his newly proposed Greater Magaric group.

Greater Magaric

• Proto-Dura
  • Dura
  • Tandrange
• Magaric: Kham , Magar
• Chepangic-Raji
  • Chepangic: Chepang , Bhujel
  • Raji-Raute: Raji , Raute , Rawat

References

1. 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.