Chepangic languages explained

Chepangic
Region:	Nepal
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	(Tibeto-Burman)
Fam3:	Greater Magaric
Child1:	Chepang
Child2:	Bujhyal
Glotto:	chep1244
Glottorefname:	Chepangic

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

• Proto-Dura
  • Dura
  • Tandrange
• Magaric

Kham, Magar

• Chepangic-Raji
  • Chepangic: Chepang, Bhujel
  • Raji-Raute

Raji, Raute, Rawat

References

• George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.

Notes and References

1. Schorer, Nicolas. 2016. The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny. Leiden: Brill.