Chintang language
| Chintang | |
|---|---|
| छिन्ताङ् | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈtsʰintaːŋ] |
| Region | Dhankuta District, Nepal |
| Ethnicity | 5,000 (2011 census?)[1] |
Native speakers | 3,700 (2011 census)[2] |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ctn |
| Glottolog |
chhi1245[3] |
Chintang (Chintang: छिन्ताङ् Chintāṅ / Chhintang) is an eastern Kiranti language spoken by 5,000 to 6,000 people in Chintang village in Dhankuta District, Koshi Zone, Nepal.
References
- ↑ Chintang language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Chintang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chhintange". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Bibliography
Bickel, Balthasar, G. Banjade, M. Gaenszle, E. Lieven, N. P. Paudyal, & I. Purna Rai et al. (2007). Free prefix ordering in Chintang. Language, 83 (1), 43–73.
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