Endangered Languages Project - Chepang

Chepang

^{[aka Tsepang, Chēpāng, Tśepang]}

Classification: Sino-Tibetan

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Tsepang, Chēpāng, Tśepang
CLASSIFICATION		Sino-Tibetan, Chepangic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		cdm
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Western Chepang Eastern Chepang South-western Chepang
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “South Asia and the Middle East” (289-348 ch. 4) . George Van Driem (2007) , Christopher Mosely · London and NewYork: Routledge

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
25,097
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
36656
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Census figure

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Forest habitat is now largely uninhabitable, people are being assimilated into Nepalese society.

PLACES: Nepal

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Makvanpur, Citvan, and Dhadin districts

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
30,000
Native speakers worldwide

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Nepal

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Makwanpur, Chitwan and the southern parts of the Gorkha and Dhading districts of southwestern central Nepal

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
36,807
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
36,807
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Nepal

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
36,800
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
52,237
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the ethnic population is from the 2001 census.

DATE OF INFO: 2001

MORE ON VITALITY

The number of speakers is increasing.

PLACES: Nepal

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

27.6666666667,84.75

COORDINATES

27.7552,84.8144

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press