Belhare language

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The Belhare language is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan family spoken by the Belhare community in eastern Nepal.

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instanceOf Kiranti language
Sino-Tibetan language
language
alignmentType split alignment with ergative features
belongsTo Eastern Kiranti branch (often classified)
classificationStatus well-attested Kiranti language
closelyRelatedTo Athpare language NERFINISHED
Chintang language NERFINISHED
Yakkha language
continent Asia
country Nepal
documentedIn descriptive grammars
linguistic fieldwork studies
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
ethnicGroup Belhare people NERFINISHED
glottocode belh1238
glottologName Belhare NERFINISHED
hasCaseSystem ergative–absolutive tendencies
hasDialects Athpahariya (sometimes treated as separate)
Belhare proper
hasFeature case marking on nouns
complex verbal morphology
evidentiality distinctions
inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural
hasPhonologicalFeature tone or pitch-accent-like contrasts (as described for some Kiranti languages)
ISO639-3Code byw
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
morphologyType polypersonal agreement
nativeTo Belhare community
numberOfSpeakers a few thousand
primaryWordFormation suffixation
region eastern Nepal
researcher Balthasar Bickel NERFINISHED
Yvonne Schiering NERFINISHED
shiftTendency language shift towards Nepali
spokenIn Dhankuta District NERFINISHED
Koshi Province NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Kiranti languages NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication within Belhare community
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Devanagari script

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Kiranti languages hasMember Belhare language