| Belhare | |
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| Region | Dhankuta district,Nepal |
| Ethnicity | Kirat Athpare ofBelhara |
Native speakers | 600 (2011 census)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | byw |
| Glottolog | belh1239 |
| ELP | Belhariya |
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Belhare (Nepali:Belhāreor), also known asAthpariya II (not to be confused withAthpariya I), is aKiranti language spoken by some 2,000 people living on Belhara Hill, at the southern foothills of the Himalayas situated in theDhankuta District,Koshi Province in easternNepal. All speakers of Belhare are bilingual inNepali, which results in frequentcode mixing and a large amount of Nepali loan-words. Nevertheless, the grammar of Belhare has maintained its distinct Kiranti characteristics.
Like otherKiranti languages, Belhare is characterized by an elaborate morphology in both the nominal and verbal domain. Syntactically, Belhare has partly anaccusative, partly anergativepivot, but accusative syntax is more prominent in terms of frequency.
The phonemes in parentheses only occur in loanwords from Nepali.
| Bilabial | Apical | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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| Nasal | m⟨m⟩ | n⟨n⟩ | ŋ⟨ŋ⟩ | ||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | unaspirated | p⟨p⟩ | t⟨t⟩ | ts⟨c⟩ | k⟨k⟩ | ʔ⟨ʔ⟩ |
| aspirated | pʰ⟨ph⟩ | tʰ⟨th⟩ | tsʰ⟨ch⟩ | kʰ⟨kh⟩ | |||
| voiced | unaspirated | b⟨b⟩ | d⟨d⟩ | (dz⟨j⟩) | ɡ⟨g⟩ | ||
| aspirated | (bʱ⟨bh⟩) | (dʱ⟨dh⟩) | (dzʱ⟨jh⟩) | (ɡʱ⟨gh⟩) | |||
| Fricative | s⟨s⟩ | h⟨h⟩ | |||||
| Lateral | l⟨l⟩ | ||||||
| Trill | unaspirated | r⟨r⟩ | |||||
| aspirated | (rʱ⟨rh⟩) | ||||||
| Approximant | w⟨w⟩ | j⟨y⟩ | |||||
| front | central | back | |
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| close | iĩ | uũ | |
| mid | e | (ʌ) | o |
| open | a |
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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