Kiranti

E572278

Kiranti is a group of closely related Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily by the Kirati ethnic communities in eastern Nepal.

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Label Occurrences
Kiranti canonical 18

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sino-Tibetan languages
language group
country Nepal
ethnicGroupAssociated Kirati
Limbu
Rai
hasAlternativeName Kirant languages
linked to: Kiranti languages

Kiranti branch
Kiranti languages
hasLanguage Athpare
Bahing
Bantawa
linked to: Bantawa Rai

Belhare
Chamling
Dumi
Khaling
Kulung
linked to: Kulung Rai

Limbu
linked to: Limbu language

Sampang
Thulung
linked to: Thulung Rai

Yakkha
Yamphu
hasSubgroup Central Kiranti
linked to: Greater Kiranti

Eastern Kiranti
Western Kiranti
linguisticFeature agreement with multiple arguments
complex verbal morphology
tone or pitch accent in some languages
linguisticTypology agglutinative
verb-final
partOf Trans-Himalayan languages (proposed)
linked to: Himalayan languages
region Himalayan region
spokenBy Kirati people
linked to: Kirati peoples

Rai ethnic groups
spokenIn Nepal
eastern Nepal
status endangered (many member languages)
subclassOf Sino-Tibetan language family
Tibeto-Burman languages
usedFor daily communication in local communities
oral tradition
ritual practices
writingSystem Devanagari
linked to: Devanagari script

Latin script (for some descriptions)

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