Mahakiranti languages information

The Mahakiranti or Maha-Kiranti ('Greater Kiranti') languages are a proposed intermediate level of classification of the Sino-Tibetan languages, consisting...

George (2003). "Mahakiranti revisited: Mahakiranti or Newaric?" (PDF). In Kansakar, Tej Ratna; Turin, Mark (eds.). Themes in Himalayan Languages and Linguistics...

affiliation spoken in Nepal. They are often classified as part of the Mahakiranti or Magaric families (van Driem 2001). Until recently, the Chepang people...

George van Driem had formerly proposed that the Kiranti languages were part of a Mahakiranti family, although specialists are not completely certain of...

(2001) suggests that it may be closest to the Mahakiranti languages, a subfamily of the Himalayish languages. Lepcha is internally diverse, showing lexical...

languages.) They are often classified as part of the Mahakiranti family, and Van Driem (2001) proposes that they are close relatives of Mahakiranti....

Sindhupalcok districts speak Thangmi. The Thangmi language seems to have many similarities with other languages in Nepal. For example, Barām, Kiranti and Newar...

Himalayan Languages Project 1998 Elected Honorary Member of the Kirat Yakthung Chumlung at Kathmandu Mahakiranti languages Karasuk languages "Prof. em...

Baram (Baraamu, Bhramu) is a critically endangered Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Nepal. Speakers are shifting to Nepali. Dialects are Dandagaun and Mailung...

Raji-Raute. This language sub-group shows some affinity to areal Mahakiranti group Himalayish languages such as Kham Magar and Dhut Magar. The Central Bureau of...

is a nearly extinct Kiranti language spoken in Nepal. The name Saam is ambiguous, and shared with neighboring languages. Chukwa may be Saam if it is...

Southern Kirant’. In: Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2.1. 63–86. van Driem, George (2001). Languages of the Himalayas. An Ethnolinguistic Handbook...

language, it falls in the below-100,000 category of endangered languages. It is experiencing language shift to Nepali, especially in the northern region. Bantawa...

Yamphu language is a Kirati language spoken by the Kirat Yamphu people, a Kirati people of the Himalayas of Nepal. Tomyang (Chongka) is a recently discovered...

neighbour Jero. It is one of a number of Kiranti languages, a language family also known as the Rai languages. Wambule is spoken in the following villages...

Kirati language of eastern Nepal. It has been described by George van Driem. Southern Lorung is also considered to be Southern Yamphu language. These...

Nachhiring is a Kirati language spoken mostly in the eastern hills of Nepal. It not merges into Kulung in the north and Sampang in the south. A follower...

Endangered Languages. Archived from the original on 16 February 2003. Retrieved 12 September 2007. Kansakar, Tej R. (July 1993). "The Tibeto-Burman Languages of...

language of Eastern Nepal). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 57, 347 – 355. Driem, George van (2004): Newaric and Mahakiranti....

Kirati languages language spoken by 5,000 to 6,000 people in Chhintang VDC and Ahale VDC in Dhankuta District, Province No. 1, Nepal. The language has two...

Raji-Raute. This language sub-group shows some affinity to areal Mahakiranti group Himalayish languages such as Kham Magar and Magar Dhut. Rawat at Ethnologue (18th...

Ebert, Karen H. 1991. “Inverse and pseudoinverse prefixes in Kiranti languages: Evidence from Belhare, Athpare and Dungmali.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman...

Chulung (Chɨlɨng) is a Kirati languages spoken in Ankhisalla VDC, Dhankuta District, Koshi Zone, Nepal. Chulung at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)...

Sunuwar people. It was first comprehensively attested by the Himalayan Languages Project. It is also known as Kõits Lo (कोँइच लो ; kõica lo), Kiranti-Kõits...