Chepang is a language spoken by approximately 59,000 people in South-Central Nepal. The people are known as Chepang. Randy LaPolla (2003) proposes 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Makwanpur District (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
a population of 420,477. As their first language, 45.8% spoke Tamang, 41.5% Nepali, 4.1% Newari, 3.9% Chepang, 1.4% Magar, 0.9% Bhojpuri, 0.6% Maithili...
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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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Dhading District (category Articles containing Nepali (macrolanguage)-language text)
district had a population of 336,067. As their first language, 70.7% spoke Nepali, 20.1% Tamang, 2.5% Chepang, 2.1% Gurung, 1.9% Magar, 0.9% Newari, 0.7% Ghale...
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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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Bagmati Province (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
Maithili (1.17%), Gurung (0.92%) and Chepang (0.83%) are other languages spoken in the province. The Language Commission of Nepal has recommended Nepal...
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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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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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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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Tanahun District (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
Badi, 0.4% Bote, 0.3% Dura, 0.2% other Dalit, 0.2% Majhi, 0.2% Rai, 0.1% Chepang/Praja, 0.1% Gaine, 0.1% Sunuwar, 0.1% Tharu, 0.1% Yadav and 0.2% others...
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Gorkha District (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
their first language, 73.0% spoke Nepali, 13.4% Gurung, 4.7% Magar, 3.8% Tamang, 1.1% Ghale, 0.9% Urdu, 0.7% Newari, 0.6% Kumhali, 0.6% Chepang, 0.5% Bajjika...
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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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Benighat Rorang Rural Municipality (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
1% Rai, 0.1% Tharu and 0.1% other languages as their first language. In terms of ethnicity/caste, 31.6% were Chepang/Praja, 11.2% Hill Brahmin, 10.5% Chhetri...
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Hetauda (category Articles containing Nepali (macrolanguage)-language text)
Magar, 0.4% Chepang, 0.3% Gurung, 0.3% Hindi, 0.2% Tharu, 0.2% Urdu, 0.1% Bhujel, 0.1% Lepcha, 0.1% Rai, 0.1% Rajasthani and 0.2% other languages as their...
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Madi, Chitwan (category CS1 Nepali-language sources (ne))
6% Chepang, 2.3% Bote, 1.9% Gurung, 1.0% Magar, 0.9% Darai, 0.3% Newar, 0.2% Maithili, 0.1% Hindi and 0.1% other languages as their first language. In...
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Hindi, 0.6% Maithili, 0.3% Chepang, 0.1% Urdu, 0.1% Bote, 0.1% Rai, 0.1% Kumal and 0.1% other languages as their first language. In terms of ethnicity/caste...
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