The Magar languages (or Magaric languages) are a small proposed family of
Sino-Tibetan languages
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese 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
Dura is a recently extinct language of Nepal. It has been classified in the West Bodish branch of Tibetan languages, though more recent work separates it out as an independent branch of Sino-Tibetan. Many of the Dura have switched to speaking Ne ...
.
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
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 ...
, but is a
Tamangic rather than a Magaric language.
Classification
Schorer (2016:293)
[Schorer, Nicolas. 2016. ''The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny''. Leiden: Brill.] classifies Magaric as part of his newly proposed
Greater Magaric group.
;
Greater Magaric
*Proto-Dura
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Dura''
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Tandrange''
*Magaric: ''
Kham'', ''
Magar''
*Chepangic-Raji
**
Chepangic: ''
Chepang'', ''
Bhujel
Bhujel or Gharti is a caste group in Nepal.
The inhabitants living near the Bhuji Khola river called Bhujel. Bhujel are divided into four subcaste – Bhujyal, Gharti, Nisel and Khawas. Most of the Bhujel of Nepal speaks Nepali language but some ...
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**
Raji-Raute: ''
Raji'', ''
Raute'', ''
Rawat''
References
Bibliography
* George van Driem (2001) ''Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region.'' Brill.
* Thurgood, Graham (2003) "A subgrouping of the Sino-Tibetan languages: The interaction between language contact, change, and inheritance." In G. Thurgood and R. LaPolla, eds., ''The Sino-Tibetan languages,'' pp 14–17. London: Routledge.
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