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Magar

Learn about Magar through verified cultural context, key facts, regions, traditions and references.

Family

Sino-Tibetan (Magaric)

Where

Western mid-hills — Palpa, Syangja, Tanahun, Pyuthan, Rolpa

Speakers

≈ 3.0% (2011)

Script

Devanagari; Akhikhim script revival

Note

Spoken in several mutually distant varieties (Kham, Kaike, Magar proper) across the western hills' Magar heartland.