Chepangic languages

Sino-Tibetan subfamily of central Nepal
Chepangic
Geographic
distribution		Nepal
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
  • (Tibeto-Burman)
    • Greater Magaric
      • Chepangic
Subdivisions
  • Chepang
  • Bujhyal
Glottologchep1244

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.

Greater Magaric

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.
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Sino-Tibetan branches
Western Himalayas
(Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim)
Greater Magaric
Map of Sino-Tibetan languages
Eastern Himalayas
(Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal)Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border
"Naga"
Sal
East and Southeast Asia
Burmo-Qiangic
Dubious (possible isolates)
(Arunachal)
Greater Siangic
Proposed groupingsProto-languages
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches.
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