Chantyal
[aka Chentel, Chantel, Chhantel]Classification: Sino-Tibetan
·threatened
Classification: Sino-Tibetan
·threatened
Chentel, Chantel, Chhantel |
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Sino-Tibetan, Tamangic |
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Information from: “Chantyal Discourses” . Noonan, Michael and Bhulanja, Ram Prasad (2005) Himalayan Linguistics
< 10,000
The Baglung Chantyal has already shifted to Nepali.
The Dhaulagiri zone of central Nepal
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
9,814
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Noonan (1997). Data for the ethnic population is from the 2001 census.
The number of speakers is decreasing.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press