Chepang language

Chepang
Chyo-bang
Region Nepal
Ethnicity Chepang
Native speakers
49,000 (2011 census)[1]
Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cdm
Glottolog chep1245[2]

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.

References

  1. Chepang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chepang". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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