• Thumbnail for Magar Kham language
    Magar Kham (मगर खाम), also known as Kham, Kham Magar, and Khamkura, is the Sino-Tibetan language variety of the Northern Magar people of Nepal. The language...
    27 KB (2,374 words) - 16:57, 21 April 2024
  • The Kham Magars (खाम मगर), also known in scholarship as the Northern Magars, are a (Tibeto-Burman language) Magar Kham language or Kham Kura speaking...
    10 KB (1,222 words) - 07:37, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magars
    inhabited by Magars. Another confederation of eighteen Magar kingdoms, known as Athara Magarat, also existed and was originally inhabited by Kham Magars. At the...
    45 KB (5,859 words) - 16:03, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eastern Rukum District
    since antiquity. The presence of highly-rich majority Magar culture with a complex of Kham Magar language of Sino-Tibetan language family suggests its...
    46 KB (4,144 words) - 12:51, 20 June 2024
  • Magarat (section Magars)
    (majority of Kham Magars), both located in Province 5 of Nepal, are the top two districts of Nepal with the highest indigenous Magar population. Magars are martial...
    6 KB (763 words) - 07:04, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kham
    Kham (Tibetan: ཁམས་, Wylie: khams; Chinese: 康; pinyin: Kāng) is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Domey also known as Amdo...
    28 KB (3,314 words) - 20:25, 10 June 2024
  • "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...
    11 KB (630 words) - 18:52, 9 June 2024
  • Rawang Kiranti West Himalayan (Kinauri-Almora) Kinauri Almora Kham Magar Chepang Kham, Magar, and Chepangic have also been proposed to form part of a Greater...
    3 KB (278 words) - 18:03, 3 January 2024
  • The Magar languages (or Magaric languages) are a small proposed family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Nepal, notably including Magar and Kham. (Ethnologue...
    3 KB (231 words) - 14:06, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bhume Naach
    Kham Magar people from Lumbini and Karnali provinces of Nepal. The term Bhume means 'Earth' and Naach means 'dance' in the Nepali language. The Kham people...
    7 KB (978 words) - 21:20, 8 March 2024
  • of Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve. There is a small community of indigenous Kham Magar people as well as Tibetan refugees. The enclosing valley is drained to...
    7 KB (474 words) - 13:45, 28 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Languages of Nepal
    Bagmati Province; Magar and Gurung in Gandaki Province; Tharu and Awadhi in Lumbini Province; Nepali (Khas Bhasa)'s Karnali dialect and Magar in Karnali Province;...
    22 KB (1,036 words) - 05:27, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for West Rapti River
    Karnali in Nepal. The West Rapti is notable for janajati ethnic groups – Kham Magar among its highland sources and then Tharu in Inner Terai Deukhuri Valley...
    10 KB (1,056 words) - 17:26, 8 March 2024
  • Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT), has also proposed a Kham-Magar-Chepang language group. Schorer (2016:293) classifies the Greater Magaric...
    3 KB (199 words) - 05:44, 20 January 2024
  • Look up Kham in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kham is an area of eastern Tibet. Kham may also refer to: Kham Magar, an ethnic minority in the Himalayan...
    589 bytes (111 words) - 02:48, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gandaki Province
    9.85% speak Kham Magar, 8.70% Gurung, 1.72% Newar, 1.48% Tharu and 1.42% Tamang. The Language Commission of Nepal has recommended Magar, Gurung and Bhojpuri...
    26 KB (1,410 words) - 10:06, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thapa
    Thapa (section Magar Thapa)
    Confederation of Eighteen Magar district known as Athara Magarat also existed which was primarily inhabited by Kham Magars. Magars who are the Magar language speaking...
    20 KB (2,046 words) - 10:58, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tibeto-Burman languages
    Tibeto-Kanauri Western Himalayish Bodic Lepcha Tamangish Dhimal Newar Kiranti Kham-Magar-Chepang Tangut-Qiang Tangut Qiangic rGyalrongic Nungic Tujia Lolo-Burmese–Naxi...
    40 KB (3,506 words) - 15:37, 15 March 2024
  • affinity to areal Mahakiranti group Himalayish languages such as Kham Magar and Magar Dhut. Rawat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
    3 KB (380 words) - 03:55, 31 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nepalese cuisine
    whole on sticks. Mutton may be obtained from nomadic hill people such as Kham Magar who take herds of sheep and goats up to sub-alpine pastures bordering...
    31 KB (3,980 words) - 18:37, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rapti Zone
    rugged 3-4,000 meter ridgeline marking the limits of the Rapti Basin. Kham Magar live in Big Area throughout these highlands up to about 2,500 meters....
    11 KB (1,224 words) - 15:30, 4 May 2024
  • 100 km or more. For example, in Rapti zone some 100 km west of Pokhara the Kham Magar move their herds between winter pastures just north of India and summer...
    22 KB (2,743 words) - 12:47, 5 April 2024
  • affinity to areal Mahakiranti group Himalayish languages such as Kham Magar and Dhut Magar. The Central Bureau of Statistics of Nepal classifies the Raji...
    4 KB (451 words) - 23:05, 20 February 2024
  • Greater Magaric group. Greater Magaric Proto-Dura Dura Tandrange Magaric: Kham, Magar Chepangic-Raji Chepangic: Chepang, Bhujel Raji-Raute: Raji, Raute, Rawat...
    2 KB (103 words) - 03:52, 31 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ghorahi
    population of 158,628. Of these, 71.5% spoke Nepali, 23.5% Tharu, 2.2% Kham, 1.0% Magar, 0.7% Hindi, 0.2% Awadhi, 0.2% Maithili, 0.2% Newar, 0.2% Urdu and...
    31 KB (2,921 words) - 10:45, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dance in Nepal
    part of Nepal. Mayur Naach; Peacock Dance: performed by western magar specially Kham Magar, popular in the Mid-Western part of Nepal, especially Rolpa and...
    7 KB (828 words) - 17:11, 3 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rolpa District
    language, 86.1% spoke Nepali, 10.8% Magar, 2.6% Kham, 0.3% Gurung and 0.1% other languages. Ethnicity/caste: 43.4% were Magar, 33.9% Chhetri, 12.3% Kami, 3...
    13 KB (763 words) - 23:26, 19 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Demographics of Nepal
    communities such as Madhesi and Tharu in the Tharuhat and Madhesh and Kham Magar in the mid-western hills to support the Unified Communist Party of Nepal...
    59 KB (3,587 words) - 23:45, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Transhumance
    northwest India, Van Gujjars and Bakarwals of Jammu and Kashmir in India, Kham Magar in western Nepal and Gaddis of Bharmaur region of Himachal Pradesh. In...
    57 KB (7,112 words) - 15:51, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sino-Tibetan languages
    Tibeto-Kanauri Western Himalayish Bodic Lepcha Tamangish Dhimal Newar Kiranti Kham-Magar-Chepang Tangut-Qiang Tangut Qiangic Rgyalrongic Nungic Tujia Lolo-Burmese–Naxi...
    87 KB (8,542 words) - 11:39, 12 June 2024