Chintang language

Chintang (Chintang: छिन्ताङ् Chintāṅ / Chhintang) is an eastern Kirati languages language spoken by 5,000 to 6,000 people in Chhintang VDC and Ahale VDC in Dhankuta District, Province No. 1, Nepal. The language has two dialects, Mulgaun and Sambhugaon.^[2] Most speakers of Chintang are also fluent speakers of the Indo-European Nepali language, which is the lingua franca of Nepal and the sole language of instruction in school, and the Sino-Tibetan Bantawa language, which is closely related to Chintang.^[3][4] The UNESCO World Atlas of Languages classifies the language as definitely endangered.^[5]

Chintang
छिन्ताङ्
Pronunciation	[ˈtsʰintaːŋ]
Region	Dhankuta District, Nepal
Ethnicity	5,000 (2011 census?)^[1]
Native speakers	3,700 (2011 census)^[2]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Mahakiranti (?) Kiranti Eastern Kiranti Chintang
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ctn
Glottolog	chhi1245
ELP	Chhintange

References

1. Chintang language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)  
2. Chintang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
3. Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Gaenszle, Martin; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra Prasad; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine (2007). "Free Prefix Ordering in Chintang". Language. 83 (1): 43–73. ISSN 0097-8507.
4. Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P.; Banjade, Goma; Bhatta, Toya N.; Gaenszle, Martin; Pettigrew, Judith; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore (2012). "Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech*". Journal of Child Language. 39 (2): 284–321. doi:10.1017/S0305000911000080. hdl:10344/3401. ISSN 1469-7602.
5. "Chintang in Nepal | UNESCO WAL". en.wal.unesco.org. Retrieved 2023-02-23.

Bibliography

Bickel, Balthasar, G. Banjade, M. Gaenszle, E. Lieven, N. P. Paudyal (2007). Free prefix ordering in Chintang. Language, 83 (1), 43–73.

External links

• The Chintang and Puma Documentation Project (DoBeS)
• The Chintang Language Research Project (CLRP)