Mythologies of the Bahing/Bayung Tribe

The Bahing/Bayung Tribe are a subset of the Indigenous Kirant ethnic group, which is located widely in Okhaldhunga and Solukhumbu District. These people have 6547 population (2021 census) They can be found in some of the villages like Bulaadi, Chisopani, Moli, Pankhu, Bhadaure, Aapsowra, Rangadeep, Bigutar, Mamkha, Narayasthan, Baruneshowe, Ratmate, Waksa, Lekh Kharka of the Okhaldhunga District, and Nechabatase, Titribot of Ophlang in khotang district, Salyan of Solukhumbu & in some other districts of eastern Nepal. Their language, also named "Bahing lo, Pai lo, Radu lo, Wai lo, Procha Lo", belongs to the family of Kiranti languages, a subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. They use "Sewa" as their first greetings. They have two main festivals: Hong and Susu. The Bahing also worship Nature. The Central Bureau of Statistics of Nepal classifies the Bahing as a subgroup within the broader social group of Mountain/Hill Janajati. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, 3,096 people (0.0% of the population of Nepal) were Bahing.


Bahing is a member of the Western Kiranti branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family. It is spoken by about 12,000 people mainly in the Okhaldhunga, Solumkhumbu and Khotang districts in the west of Koshi Province in eastern Nepal. Bahing is also known as Paiwa, Dungmowa, Rukhusalu, Waripsawa, Timriwa, Dhimriwa, Nayango, Dhayango, Khaliwa, Khaluwa, Rendukpa, Rendu or Rungbu. Dialects include Rumdali, Nechali, Tolacha, Moblocha and Hangu. It is closely related to Khaling, which is spoken in Koshi Province of Nepal, and in northern India. In 2005, a team from the Central Department of Linguistics at Tribhuvan University started documenting Bahing and developing an orthography for it using the Devanagari alphabet. Since then a few books have been published in Bahing. There are also books to teach Bahing speakers to read and write their language.


Aborigine Indigenous Bahing people are among one of the Kirat ethnic. Their traditional homeland spans from the hilly terrains of eastern & south western part of Okhaldhunga and southern Solukhumbu district. They have their own distinct cultural identity, traditional homeland, traditional rites and customs, social structure, and written and unwritten history. Kirat Bahing practice shamanism(Shaman Part II) and their rituals are mostly related to the worship of Mother Nature, ancestors, sun, moon, wind, fire and main pillar of house. Bahing Kirat Mulukhim will achieve the vision through empowering Indigenous Kirat Bahing People and making collective efforts towards protecting and promoting and entertaining rights.


Bahing is reported as the mother tongue of 11 658 respondents in the 2011 Nepal Census. The speakers inhabit the middle hills of eastern Nepal, in the District of Okhaldhunga and the southern tip of Solukhumbu, between the Maulung River to the west and the Dudh Kosi to the east.  They call themselves Bahing, Bayung, Rumdali, or Nechali. As a group, they recognize membership in a larger supergroup called “Rai”. Linguists consider Bahing to be one of 30 or so closely related but mutually unintelligible languages constituting the Kiranti subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Bahing’s closest relative is Sunwar, its western and northwestern neighbor.


Information about the Bahing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahing_language

http://www.language-archives.org/language/bhj

https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/bhj

https://www.webonary.org/bahing/overview/introduction/

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