Chepang language

Chepang
Chepang
Chyo-bang
Region	Nepal
Ethnicity	Chepang
Native speakers	49,000 (2011 census)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chepangic Chepang; ;
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cdm
Glottolog	chep1245
ELP	Chepang
	Chepang is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Chepang is a language spoken by approximately 37,000 people in Nepal. The people are known as Chepang. Randy LaPolla (2003) proposes that Chepang may be part of a larger "Rung" group.

Phonology

Chepang consonants^[2]
		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n̪			ŋ
Stop	Voiceless	p	t̪	t͡s		k
Stop	Voiced	b	d̪	d͡z		g
Fricative				s			h
Approximant				l	j	w

Chepang vowels^[2]
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a

Geographical distribution

Chepang is spoken in the following districts of Nepal (Ethnologue).

Makwanpur District, Bagmati Province
Chitwan District, Bagmati Province
Southern Dhading District, Bagmati Province
Southern Gorkha District, Gandaki Province

Dialects are Western Chepang and Eastern Chepang.

References

^ Chepang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel; Wright, Richard (2012). "Revisiting population size vs. phoneme inventory size". Language. 88 (4): 877–893. doi:10.1353/lan.2012.0087. ISSN 1535-0665.

External links

The Chepang Language - Linguistics research and language documentation -

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[e18-1] Chepang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[:0-2] Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel; Wright, Richard (2012). "Revisiting population size vs. phoneme inventory size". Language. 88 (4): 877–893. doi:10.1353/lan.2012.0087. ISSN 1535-0665.

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v t e Greater Magaric languages
Magaric	Magar Kham
Chepangic	Chepang Bhujel
Raji-Raute	Raji Raute Rawat
Dura	Dura Tandrange