Greater Magaric languages explained

Greater Magaric
Region:	Nepal
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Mahakiranti ?
Child1:	Dura
Child2:	Magaric
Child3:	Chepangic
Child4:	Raji-Raute
Glotto:	kham1285
Glottorefname:	Kham-Magar-Chepang

The Greater Magaric languages are a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages proposed by Nicolas Schorer (2016). Schorer (2016: 286-287) considers Greater Magaric to be closely related to the Kiranti languages as part of a greater Himalayish branch, and does not consider Himalayish to be particularly closely related to the Tibetic languages, which include Tibetan and the Tamangic languages.

Matisoff (2015: xxxii, 1123-1127), in the final print release of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT), has also proposed a Kham-Magar-Chepang language group.^{[1] [2]}

Classification

Schorer (2016:293)^[3] classifies the Greater Magaric languages as follows.

• Greater Magaric
  • Dura
    • Dura
    • Tandrange
  • Magaric
    • Kham
    • Magar
  • Chepangic-Raji
    • Chepangic
      • Chepang
      • Bhujel
    • Raji-Raute
      • Raji
      • Raute
      • Rawat

References

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

Further reading

• Watters, David E. 2003. Some preliminary observations on the relationship between Kham, Magar, (and Chepang). SIL International Language and Culture Archives.

Notes and References

1. Matisoff, James A. 2015. The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus. Berkeley: University of California. (PDF)
2. Bruhn, Daniel; Lowe, John; Mortensen, David; Yu, Dominic (2015). Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Database Software. Software, UC Berkeley Dash.
3. Schorer, Nicolas. 2016. The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny. Leiden: Brill.