The Chepangic languages, Chepang and Bujhyal (perhaps divergent dialects of a single language), are Tibeto-Burman languages of uncertain affiliation spoken in Nepal.
Subsequently, more than 60,000 people of Chepang, Gurung, Magar, Chetri and Bahun ethnic groups, formerly resident only in the mid-hills, have settled here.
The Nepali word Kusunda originally meant "savage", as the neighboring Chepang and other groups traditionally thought of them as savages.
The closest well-documented language to Raute known at the present time is Chepang, spoken by an ethnic group of west-central Nepal who also have been hunter-gatherers until the current generation.
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