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The Shauka people, also known as Rangkas and Johari, are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group living in the Johar Valley of Gori Ganga river in Munsyari, tehsil of the Pithoragarh District in Uttarakhand, India. [1] Shaukas are a part of Bhotiya community and were historically involved in trade between India and Tibet. Contemporarily, they are engaged in occupations like agriculture, trade, and animal husbandry. They currently speak the Johari, a dialect of Kumaoni [2] , and spoke Rangas, a now-extinct, Tibeto-Berman language in the past. [3]