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The Kiranti languages (also called Bahing-Vayu in the terminology of Benedict (1972)) are a major family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in Nepal by the Kirat people. [edit] ClassificationThe Kiranti languages are frequently posited to form part of a Maha-Kiranti family. Starostin's "Sino-Kiranti" hypothesis posits that Kiranti is quite divergent, outside of Tibeto-Burman, so that the Sino-Tibetan family would be divided into Tibeto-Burman and Sino-Kiranti, or into Tibeto-Burman, Sinitic, and Kiranti. (He did not consider other Maha-Kiranti languages.) [edit] The languagesThere are about two dozen Kiranti languages. The better known are Bahing, Limbu, Vayu, and Kulung (Rai). Over all, they are:
Bantawa [bap], Camling [rab], Chukwa [cuw], Dungmali [raa], Kulung [kle], Lambichhong [lmh], Nachering [ncd], Phangduwali [phw], Pongyong [pgy], Puma [pum], Saam [raq], Sampang [rav], Waling [wly]
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