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Where is Eastern Magar spoken?

Eastern Magar is a Sino-Tibetan language, spoken in Nepal and India. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Eastern Magar is spoken

Eastern Magar is spoken in 2 countries: Nepal and India. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.

CountryShare of populationEstimated speakers
Nepal1.1%342,346
IndiaNot givenNot given

Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.

Eastern Magar has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Eastern Magar?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language. The table above has rough per-country estimates from Unicode CLDR.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Eastern Magar sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Eastern Magar as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Sino-Tibetan
  2. Himalayish
  3. Mahakiranti
  4. Kham-Magar-Chepang
  5. Magar
  6. Eastern Magar

Related languages

Other languages in the Magar group:

More about Eastern Magar

Codes: ISO 639-3 mgp, Glottolog east2352. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Eastern Magar

Where is Eastern Magar spoken?

Eastern Magar is spoken in Nepal and India. Unicode CLDR puts it at 1.1% of the population of Nepal, which is about 342,346 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Eastern Magar in?

Glottolog places Eastern Magar in the Sino-Tibetan family, in the branch Himalayish, Mahakiranti, Kham-Magar-Chepang and Magar.

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