Alternate Names: Chhintange, Chintang, Chintang Rûng, Teli
Dialects: Mulgaun, Sambhugaon. Probably not intelligible with Bantawa ,, but sometimes considered a dialect of it due to reportedly ethnic similarities. Only a few lexical items and grammatical markers are different between the two dialects.
Status Notes: Language of recognized indigenous nationality: Rai.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 3,710 (2011 census), decreasing. 0 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 5,000.
Language Use: Home, religion, work; mixed use: Friends. Young adults and older. Some use among children and adolescents. Neutral attitudes. Almost all are bilingual in Bantawa [bap].
Language Development: Videos. Dictionary. Grammar.
Typology: SOV; postpositions; noun head final; no noun classes or genders; content q-word in situ; up to 4 prefixes (in free order), up to 7 suffixes; clause constituents indicated by case-marking; verbal affixation marks person and number; ergativity; both tense and aspect; no passives or voice; nontonal; 29 consonant and 6 vowel phonemes.
Writing System: Devanagari
Nation of Origin: Nepal
Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian.