Chintang language
Chintang (Chintang: छिन्ताङ् Chintāṅ / Chhintang) is an eastern Kiranti language spoken by 5,000 to 6,000 people in Chhintang and Ahale VDC's of Dhankuta District, Province No. 1, Nepal. Dialects are Mulgaun and Sambhugaon.[2]
| Chintang | |
|---|---|
| छिन्ताङ् | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈtsʰintaːŋ] |
| Region | Dhankuta District, Nepal |
| Ethnicity | 5,000 (2011 census?)[1] |
Native speakers | 3,700 (2011 census)[2] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ctn |
| Glottolog | chhi1245[3] |
References
- Chintang language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- Chintang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chintang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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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