- Source: Magar language
Magar Dhut (Nepali: मगर ढुट, Nepali: [ɖʱuʈ]) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken mainly in Nepal, southern Bhutan, and in Darjeeling, Assam and Sikkim, India, by the Magar people. It is divided into two groups (Eastern and Western) and further dialect divisions give distinct tribal identity. In Nepal 810,000 people speak the language.
While the government of Nepal developed Magar language curricula, as provisioned by the constitution, the teaching materials have never successfully reached Magar schools, where most school instruction is in the Nepali language. It is not unusual for groups with their own language to feel that the "mother-tongue" is an essential part of identity.
The Dhut Magar language is sometimes lumped with the Magar Kham language spoken further west in Bheri, Dhaulagiri, and Rapti zones. Although the two languages share many common words, they have major structural differences and are not mutually intelligible.
Geographical distribution
= Western Magar
=Western Magar (dialects: Palpa and Syangja) is spoken in the following districts of Nepal (Ethnologue).
Lumbini Province: Palpa District
Gandaki Province: Syangja District, and a small part of the Tanahun District (west of the Bagmati River)
Small border area in Gandaki Province: Parbat District
Scattered throughout Karnali Province: especially in Surkhet District, Jajarkot District, and Dailekh District
= Eastern Magar
=Eastern Magar (dialects: Gorkha, Nawalparasi, and Tanahu) is spoken in the following districts of Nepal (Ethnologue).
Zone 1: central mountains of Nepal east of the Bagmati River
Gandaki Province: Tanahun District and southern Gorkha District
Lumbini Province: Palpa District Kapilvastu District and Nawalparasi District
Small border area in Bagmati Province: Dhading District
Zone 2: eastern Nepal
Sindhuli District, Bagmati Province
Okhaldhunga District, Koshi Province
Udayapur District, Koshi Province
Scattered communities in central Koshi Province, Dhankuta District, Bhojpur and southern Koshi Province, Ilam District, Jhapa District
Southern Bhutan
= India
=Sikkim (Magar language is one of the additional official language)
Darjeeling district and Kalimpong district of West Bengal
Golaghat district, Sonitpur district and Tinsukia district districts of Assam
Some parts of Manipur
Phonology
= Consonants
=*-only occur in the Tanahu dialect.
/ʔ/ is only a marginal phoneme.
= Vowels
=References
Further reading
Nishi 西, Yoshio 義郎 (1992e). "マガル語" [Magar, (LSI) Māgarī, Magar, Mangar]. In 亀井 Kamei, 孝 Takashi; 河野 Kōno, 六郎 Rokurō; 千野 Chino, 栄一 Eichi (eds.). 三省堂言語学大辞典 The Sanseido Encyclopaedia of Linguistics (in Japanese). Vol. 4. Tokyo: 三省堂 Sanseido Press. pp. 28a–40b. ISBN 4385152128.
Shepherd, Gary, and Barbara Shepherd. A Vocabulary of the Magar Language. Comparative vocabularies of languages of Nepal. Kirtipur: Summer Institute of Linguistics [and] Institute of Nepal Studies, Tribhuvan University, 1972.
Shepherd, Gary, and Barbara Shepherd. Magar Phonemic Summary. Tibeto-Burman phonemic summaries, 8. Kirtipur: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, 1971.
External links
detailed language map, western Nepal. Eastern Magar is language #33; Western Magar is #113.
ELAR archive of Magar language documentation materials
The Magar language - Linguistics research - Folktales in Magar (Western) - Nepal
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- Magar Kham language
- Magar
- Kulamandan Shah Khad
- Magaric languages
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- Languages of Nepal
- Magarat
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