The Chepangic languages, Chepang and Bhujel, are Sino-Tibetan languages of uncertain affiliation spoken in Nepal. They are often classified as part of the Mahakiranti or Magaric families (van Driem 2001).
Until recently, the Chepang people were hunter-gatherers.
Classification Schorer (2016:293)Schorer, Nicolas. 2016. The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny. Leiden: Brill. classifies Chepangic as part of his newly proposed Greater Magaric group. Greater Magaric Proto-Dura Dura Tandrange Magaric: Kham, Magar Chepangic-Raji Chepangic: Chepang, Bhujel Raji-Raute: Raji, Raute, Rawat
References
George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.