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 1

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sino-Tibetan languages
language group
country Nepal
ethnicGroupAssociated Kirati NERFINISHED
Limbu NERFINISHED
Rai NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Kirant languages NERFINISHED
Kiranti branch
Kiranti languages NERFINISHED
hasLanguage Athpare
Bahing NERFINISHED
Bantawa NERFINISHED
Belhare NERFINISHED
Chamling NERFINISHED
Dumi NERFINISHED
Khaling NERFINISHED
Kulung NERFINISHED
Limbu NERFINISHED
Sampang NERFINISHED
Thulung NERFINISHED
Yakkha NERFINISHED
Yamphu NERFINISHED
hasSubgroup Central Kiranti NERFINISHED
Eastern Kiranti NERFINISHED
Western Kiranti NERFINISHED
linguisticFeature agreement with multiple arguments
complex verbal morphology
tone or pitch accent in some languages
linguisticTypology agglutinative
verb-final
partOf Trans-Himalayan languages (proposed) NERFINISHED
region Himalayan region
spokenBy Kirati people NERFINISHED
Rai ethnic groups
spokenIn Nepal NERFINISHED
eastern Nepal
status endangered (many member languages)
subclassOf Sino-Tibetan language family NERFINISHED
Tibeto-Burman languages NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication in local communities
oral tradition
ritual practices
writingSystem Devanagari NERFINISHED
Latin script (for some descriptions)

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