Magar-Chepang languages

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The Magar-Chepang languages form a sub-unit of the Mahakiranti languages , which belong to the Tibetan Burman languages , a primary branch of Sinotibetic . The five Magar-Chepang languages ​​are spoken by around 700,000 people in central Nepal . The largest single language is Magar with 600,000 speakers. The Magar-Chepang is divided into the two sub-branches Magar-Kham and Chepang . The closer relationship between these branches is now generally recognized. Within the Mahakiranti, the Magar-Chepang is related to the Newari-Thangmi and the Kiranti .

Kiranti within Sino Tibetan

  • Sinotibian
    • Tibeto Burmese
      • Mahakiranti
        • Kiranti
        • Magar-Chepang
        • Newari thangmi

Internal classification and number of speakers

  • Magar-Chepang
    • Magar-Kham
      • Magar (600 thousand)   dialects: Ale, Rana, Thapa
      • Kham (50,000)   dialects:
        • Parbate group: Nishel, Wale, Thabangi, Lukumel, Takale, Maikoti
        • Gamale group: Tamali, Ghusbangi
        • Sheshi group: Tapnangi, Jangkoti
      • Raji (3 thousand)
    • Chepang
      • Chepang (25k)
      • Bhujeli (5 thousand) ( possibly a dialect of Kham )

Classification and number of speakers according to the given web link.

literature

Magar-Chepang languages

  • David E. Watters: Kham. In: Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003.
  • Karen Grunow-Harsta: Direction and Differential Case Marking in Magar. In: Anju Saxena (Ed.): Himalayan Languages. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004.

Tibeto Burmese

  • Christopher I. Beckwith (Ed.): Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages. Brill, Leiden / Boston / Cologne 2002.
  • Paul K. Benedict: Sino-Tibetan. A Conspectus. Cambridge University Press, 1972.
  • Scott DeLancey: Sino-Tibetan Languages. In: Bernard Comrie (Ed.): The World's Major Languages. Oxford University Press, 1990.
  • Austin Hale: Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages. Mouton, Berlin / New York / Amsterdam 1982.
  • James A. Matisoff: Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman. University of California Press, 2003.
  • Anju Saxena (Ed.): Himalayan Languages. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004.
  • Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003.
  • George Van Driem: Languages ​​of the Himalayas. Brill, Leiden 2001.

See also

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