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Magaric Languages
The Magar languages (or Magaric languages) are a small proposed family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Nepal, notably including Magar and Kham. ''( Ethnologue'' considers each to be a cluster of languages.) They are often classified as part of the Mahakiranti family, and Van Driem (2001) proposes that they are close relatives of Mahakiranti. Several neighboring languages with uncertain affiliation may prove to belong to a larger Magar family (" Greater Magaric"). These are Chepangic, and possibly also Raji–Raute and Dura language. Thurgood & LaPolla (2003) included Kham in LaPolla's speculative ' Rung' proposal, but found the inclusion of Magar and Chepang less probable, suggesting that the evidence for even a Magar–Kham connection is far from clear-cut. The Kaike language is also spoken by the Magar people, but is a Tamangic rather than a Magaric language. Classification Schorer (2016:293)Schorer, Nicolas. 2016. ''The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny''. Lei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, and India in the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the Indian state of Sikkim. Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural state, with Nepali as the official language. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and the largest city. The name "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic period of the India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaike Language
Magar Kaike is a Sino-Tibetan language of Nepal. ''Ethnologue'' classifies it as a West Bodish language. Kaike is spoken in Shahartara, Tupatara, Tarakot, and Belawa villages of Sahartara VDC, Dolpa District, Karnali Province, Nepal ('' Ethnologue''). Honda (2008) notes that Kaike shares many words with Tamangic, but is not part of Tamangic proper. It is also in contact with Tichurong, a divergent Tibetic The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descended from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries).Tournadre, Nicolas. 2014. "The Tibetic languages and their classification." In ''Trans-Himalayan linguistics, historical and descriptiv ... lect spoken near the Kaike-speaking areas.Honda, Isao. 2018Preliminary report on Tichyurong Tibetan (Dolpa, Nepal) ''Proceedings of the 51st International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (2018)''. Kyoto: Kyoto University. Lexicon Honda (2008) lists the following Kaike words. References Languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawat Language
Rawat (Raute), or "Jangali" (Jungle), is a small Sino-Tibetan language of India. It is spoken in 9 villages north of Askot in Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, India (''Ethnologue'') as well as in several villages in Dadeldhura District, Nepal and Darchula District, Nepal. Rawat (pronounced "raut") is a semi-agglutinative language, and features SOV sentences with either monosyllabic or less frequently di-syllabic noun heads and verb stems. Verbs are modified with various particles, including nominalizers, causatives, tense, aspect, person, number and other generally stem final particles. The noun heads have plurals, locatives, deictics, ergatives, reflexives and other generally word-final case markings. Prefixed morphemes similar to adjectives also modify nouns and root-initial voiced/voiceless alternations signal the transitivity of verbs. An example is ''geda hluw hwã-ha-re'' (geda=child hluw=bathe hwã=Copula ha=progressive re=present tense) "The child is bathing" (Fortier 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raute Language
Raute is a small Sino-Tibetan language of Dadeldhura District, Sudurpashchim Province, Nepal. Some speakers are nomadic. Alternate names include Boto boli, Khamchi, Raji, Rajwar, Ra’te, Rautya, Rautye (''Ethnologue''). Geographical distribution ''Ethnologue'' lists the following locations for historical and present locations of the Raute. *Jogbudha and Sirsa VDC's, Dadeldhura District, Sudurpashchim Province: in Karnali and Mahakali (Kali) rivers watershed regions (800 settled) *Former nomadic camp in Surkhet district, Karnali Province Karnali Province ( ne, कर्णाली प्रदेश) is one of the seven federal provinces of Nepal formed by the new constitution which was adopted on 20 September 2015. The total area of the province is covering 18.97% of the cou ... *Midwest and far west forest regions (about 25 nomads). References Raji–Raute languages Languages of Nepal Languages of Sudurpashchim Province Languages of Karnali Province {{st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raji Language
Raji is a small Sino-Tibetan language of Nepal and Uttarakhand, India. Speakers were until recently nomadic. Distribution Raji is spoken in the following areas of southwestern Nepal: *Lumbini Province: Banke and Bardiya districts *Karnali Province: Surkhet *Sudurpashchim Province: Kailali and Kanchanpur districts It is also spoken by Raji people of Uttarakhand, India, primarily living in Pithoragarh district. In Pithoragarh district, Rastogi (2015) reports that Raji is spoken in the hamlets of Kimkhola, Bhogtirua, Ganagaon, Chipaltara, Madanbori, Kutachaurani, Altodi, Jamtadi, Khirdwari and Chakarpur. Dialects Khatri (2008)Khatri, Ramesh. 2008. ''The structure of verbs and sentences of Raji''. MA thesis, Kirtipur: Tribhuvan University. divides Raji into 3 main regional dialects, for which he also provides word lists. *Barabandale: spoken in Jyotinagar, Katasi, Lalbojhi, Kuti, Bhuruwa, Solta, Khairehi, and Keodi of Kailali District; Sundarpur, Bandevi Sibir, Daiji, krishanp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhujel Language
Bhujel, also called Bujhyal, is a Chepangic language of Greater Magaric Branch spoken in central Nepal. It is a semi-tonal language, employing a complex array of affixes. It is believed that their original homeland was Nisi-Buji area of Baglung. Bhujel generally refers to the people who used to be Kamara and Bhujel term is given by the government on 2058 BS. Bhujel generally refers to the clan name of Brahmin. In addition, Bhujel term is also the clan name of various ethnic groups including Brahmin, Chhetri & Magar. Bhujel people normally are with Mongoloid features rather than with Caucasoid features. Due to the social structure & social development, This term has been the identity of many other ethnic people too. Geographical distribution Bhujel is spoken in the following villages of Nepal ('' Ethnologue''). *Tanahun District, Gandaki Zone: Kulmun, Arthumpka, Andimul, and Baniyatar *Gorkha District, Gandaki Zone: Beltar *Nawalparasi District, Lumbini Zone: Dhodeni * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chepang Language , the language of the Chepang people
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Tandrange Language
Tandrange ( ) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in a few ethnic Gurung villages of Lamjung District, Nepal.Schorer, Nicolas. 2016. ''The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny''. Leiden: Brill. Tandrange is spoken in the villages of Tāndrāṅ (), Pokharī Thok (), and Jītā (). It belongs to the Greater Magaric branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. According to Schorer (2016), the Tandrange language is closely related to the recently extinct Dura language, which was also spoken in Lamjung District. However, Tandrange speakers adamantly consider themselves as not related to the stigmatized Dura people Dura may also refer to: Đura such as, for example, Đura Bajalović Geography * Dura language, a critically endangered language of Nepal * Dura, Africa, an ancient city and former bishopric, now a Catholic titular see * Dura-Europos, an ancient .... Numerals The Tandrange numerals are:Nagila, Kedar Bilash. 2010Dura genderlects Presented at Southeast Asian Ministers of Edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamangic Languages
The Tamangic languages, TGTM languages, or West Bodish languages, are a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in the Himalayas of Nepal. They are called "West Bodish" by Bradley (1997), from ''Bod'', the native term for Tibet. TGTM stands for Tamang- Gurung- Thakali- Manang. Proto-TGTM has been reconstructed in Mazaudon (1994). Tamangic is united with the Bodish and West Himalayish languages in Bradley's (1997) "Bodish" and Van Driem's (2001) Tibeto-Kanauri. Languages The Tamangic languages are: *Tamang (several divergent varieties, with a million speakers) *Gurung (two varieties with low mutual intelligibility) * Thakali (including the Seke dialect; ethnically Tamang) *Manang language cluster: the closely related Manang, Gyasumdo, Nar Phu, and Nyeshangte languages. * Chantyal * Ghale languages (Ghale and Kutang): spoken by ethnic Tamang, perhaps related to Tamangic. *Kaike Magar Kaike is a Sino-Tibetan language of Nepal. ''Ethnologue'' classifies it as a West Bodish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magar People
The Magar, also spelled as Mangar, and Mongar, are the third largest ethnolinguistic groups of Nepal, indigenous to Western Nepal and representing 7.1% of Nepal's total population according to the 2011 Nepal census. The original home of the Magar people was to the west of Gandaki river, and roughly speaking, consisted of that portion of Nepal which lies between and around about Gulmi, Arghakhanchi, and Palpa. This part of the country was divided into twelve districts known as "''Bahra Magarat''" (Confederation of Twelve Magar Kingdoms), which included the following regions of that period: Argha, Khanchi, Bhirkot, Dhor, Garhung, Ghiring, Gulmi, Isma, Musikot, Pyung, Rising, Satung, and Pyung. During the medieval period, the whole area from Palpa to Rukum Rolpa was called the "Magarat"'','' a place settled and inhabited by Magars. Another Confederation of Eighteen Magar Kingdoms known as "''Athara Magarat''" also existed, and was originally inhabited by Kham Magars. Origin There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rung Languages
The Rung languages are a proposed branch of Sino-Tibetan languages. The branch was proposed by Randy LaPolla on the basis of morphological evidence such as pronominal paradigms. However, Guillaume Jacques and Thomas Pellard (2021) argues that these languages do not constitute a monophyly based on recent phylogenetic studies and on a thorough investigation of shared lexical innovations. LaPolla (2003) lists the following languages as part of his provisional "Rung" group.LaPolla, Randy. 2003. "Overview of Sino-Tibetan Morphosyntax". In Graham Thurgood & Randy LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Routledge. ;Rung * Rgyalrongic (also often included into the Qiangic branch) * Nungish ** T'rung (Dulong) **Anong ** Rawang *Kiranti * West Himalayan (Kinauri-Almora) **Kinauri **Almora *Kham * Magar * Chepang Kham, Magar, and Chepangic have also been proposed to form part of a Greater Magaric The Greater Magaric languages are a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages proposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
