Alternate Names: Tarali Kham
Genealogy:
Demographics: 50 (2011 census), decreasing. 0 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 2,000 (2011 A. Regmi).
Language Use: Vigorous. Home, friends, religion, work; mixed use: Education. All ages. Positive attitudes. Also use Dolpo [dre] for trade and commerce when speaking to Dolpo. Also use Dolpo [dre], Nepali [npi].
Typology: SOV; postpositions; noun head final; no noun classes or genders; content q-word in situ; 1 prefix, up to 2 suffixes; clause constituents indicated by case-marking; consistently ergative; no passives or voice; semi-tonal; 29 consonant and 10 vowel phonemes; complex conjunct-disjunct system, and nominalization.
Writing System: Unwritten
Nation of Origin: Nepal
Other Comments: Kaike sometimes known as Tarali Kham, though quite different from Kham, a Himalayan language of western Nepal. (Bradley 1997:11). Kaike is both the ethnonym and the glossonym, as the fairy language (kai - fairy, ke - language). Buddhist, Hindu.