Chepang is a language spoken by approximately 59,000 people in South-Central Nepal. The people are known as Chepang. In 2003, Randy LaPolla proposed that...
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The Chepang (Nepali: चेपाङ जाति), also known as Chewang, are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group from the rugged ridges of the Mahabharat mountain range of central...
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Look up Chepang in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chepang may refer to: Chepang people, a group indigenous to the lands of Nepal Chepang language, the...
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Himalayish (incl. Kinnauri, Baram, Thangmi) West Central Himalayish (Magar, Chepang, Hayu) East Himalayish Newarish (Newar, Pahari) Digarish Midźuish Hrusish...
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Glover, Newar and Chepang language must have diverged around 2200 BC. It is estimated that Newar shares 28% of its vocabulary with Chepang. At the same time...
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Western Himalayish Bodic Lepcha Tamangish Dhimal Newar Kiranti Kham-Magar-Chepang Tangut-Qiang Tangut Qiangic Rgyalrongic Nungic Tujia Lolo–Burmese–Naxi...
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has also proposed a Kham-Magar-Chepang language group. Schorer (2016:293) classifies the Greater Magaric languages as follows. Greater Magaric Dura...
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is a Sino-Tibetan language, and it is classified by David Bradley as “Central Himalayan,” and as being related to Magar and Chepang and more distantly...
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Duodecimal (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Nimbia dialect of Gwandara; and the Chepang language of Nepal are known to use duodecimal numerals. Germanic languages have special words for 11 and 12,...
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Numeral (linguistics) (redirect from Numbers in languages)
Duodecimal systems are based on the number 12. These include: Chepang language of Nepal, Mahl language of Minicoy Island in India Nigerian Middle Belt areas such...
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The Chepangic languages, Chepang and Bhujel, are Sino-Tibetan languages of uncertain affiliation spoken in Nepal. They are often classified as part of...
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which he includes Lepcha) as Himalayish. Bradley (1997) adds Magar and Chepang to van Driem's Mahakiranti and calls the result Himalayan. This, along...
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List of numeral systems (category CS1 Indonesian-language sources (id))
from a mix of Latin and Greek, in some cases including roots from both languages within a single name. There have been some proposals for standardisation...
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comparative 100-word Swadesh list of the Newaric languages Baram, Thami (Thangmi), and Newar, along with Chepang is from Kansakar, et al. (2011: 220–223). Kansakar...
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Magar Chepangic-Raji Chepangic: Chepang, Bhujel Raji-Raute: Raji, Raute, Rawat Schorer, Nicolas. 2016. The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny. Leiden:...
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village of Meghalaya. Laos: Akha, and Hmong Myanmar: Akha, and Hmong Nepal: Chepang St. Lawrence Island: for Siberian Yupik inhabitants, see Yupik, Alaska...
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Languages of Nepal, referred to as Nepalese languages in the country's constitution, are the languages having at least an ancient history or origin inside...
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Bagmati Province (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
language is spoken by 18.00% and Nepal Bhasa is spoken by 11.82% of the population as their mother tongue. Magar (2.30%).,Gurung (1.11%) and Chepang (0...
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Witch-hunts in Nepal Riboli, Diana (2000). Tunsuriban: Shamanism in the Chepang of southern and central Nepal. Mandala Book Point Kathmandu. ISBN 99933-1-005-0...
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Transcendental whistling (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
sound symbolic, with cognates of Proto-Tibeto-Burman language *hyu or *huy "whistle" and Chepang language syu- "blow through (hand, etc.)". This same onomatopoeic...
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Kusunda people (category Articles containing Nepali (macrolanguage)-language text)
The Nepali word Kusunda originally meant "savage", as the neighboring Chepang and other groups traditionally thought of them as savages.[citation needed]...
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Makwanpur District (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
45%) Others (3.18%) As their first language, 44.23% of the population spoke Tamang, 41.17% Nepali, 4.42% Chepang, 3.79% Nepal Bhasha, 1.75% Bhojpuri...
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Dhading District (category Articles containing Nepali (macrolanguage)-language text)
(1.3%) Others (1.67%) As their first language, 67.05% of the population spoke Nepali, 20.11% Tamang, 2.95% Chepang, 2.74% Magar, 2.66% Gurung, 1.59% Ghale...
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Magaric Dura Dura Tandrange Magaric: Kham, Magar Chepangic-Raji Chepangic: Chepang, Bhujel Raji-Raute A database of 700 words for items from households of...
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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...
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List of contemporary ethnic groups (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically...
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sociolinguistic study of the Baram language. Himalayan Linguistics 10: 187–225. [Contains basic word list of Baram, Thangmi, Newar, and Chepang.] v t e...
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Chitwan District (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
Others (2.44%) As their first language, 67.79% of the population spoke Nepali, 9.52% Tharu, 4.94% Tamang, 3.32% Chepang, 3.24% Gurung, 3.22% Magar, 2...
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Maithili, 0.2% Chepang, 0.2% Hindi, 0.1% Bhujel, 0.1% Kumhali, 0.1% Rai, 0.1% Tharu and 0.1% other languages as their first language. In terms of ethnicity/caste...
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Gorkha District (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
Nepal Bhasha and 0.95% Chepang as their first language. In 2011, 73.0% of the population spoke Nepali as their first language. Following is the data obtained...
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