Sampang language
| Sampang | |
|---|---|
| Region | Nepal |
Native speakers | 18,300 (2011 census)[1] |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
rav |
| Glottolog |
samp1249[2] |
Sampang is a subgroup Central Kiranti.
Geographical distribution
Sampang is spoken in the following locations of Nepal (Ethnologue).
- Khotang district, Sagarmatha Zone (Khotang dialect): Tap Khola river villages, Baspani, Khartamcha, Phedi, and Patheka
- Bhojpur District, Kosi Zone: in Okharbote around the Lahure Khola river headwaters
- Syam Khola area: Kimalung, Nigale, Talakharka, and Surke
- Dingla Bazaar: a few elderly speakers use the Phali dialect in Bhojpur District, Kosi Zone
Sampang language
| cha | food, rice |
| ? | curry |
| Mina | people |
| fupa | grandfather |
| muma | grandmother |
| Appa | Father |
| Aamma | mother |
| Nana | elder sister |
| ? | little sister |
| nini | Aunt elder to dad |
| dipa | Uncle Elder to Dad |
| bauba | Uncle younger to Dad |
| bubu | Elder Brother |
| ? | Younger Brother |
| ? | solti |
| ? | soltini |
| ? | Brothers children Son/ Daughter |
| kappa | Mother's Brother |
| bhulu | money |
| tey | cloths |
| kawa | water |
| mi | fire |
| ? | Cup |
| ? | flour |
| ? | Millet |
| locally brew wine | |
| saa | meat |
The different branch of Sampang people
- Rana Sampang
- Samaru Sampang
- Bhalu Sampang
- ?
References
- ↑ Sampang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sampang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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