Facts about Sunuwar
The Kiranti-Kõits
Relegion and Culture

What is their clan-nomenclature?

Binich, Katich, Kormoch, Mulich, Rapach, Rupach etc. Their phonemic and phonetic representations respectively are: /binicaa/ [binits], /kaatic/ [katits], /kormoc/ [kormot], /mulic/ [mulits], /raapac/ [rapats], /rupac/ [rupats].

All these clan-names in Kiranti-Kõits are autonyms (not of Indo-Aryan origin), which are important semantically to be identified as one of the Mongoloid-Tibeto-Burman tribes/ethnic groups of Nepal. These clan names are pregnant with meanings associated to toponyms, hydronyms, culture, individual skills, attitude of an individual and so on. Besides these aspects of semantics, these clan-names are important morphologically in the Mother Tongue, which is the only identity of the tribe/ethnic group as Mongoloid or Tibeto-Burman speakers.

Let us see some morphological breaks of the clan-names such as:
raapacha>raapach= ra+pacha>ra+pa+cha (ra= verb root/stem of ra:cha, pa= do, cha= to), ra(p)pacha ‘make someone stand up’, ‘make something rot’> raapach ‘catalyst’.

There are nowadays some corrupted forms of these clan names, because of historical change of the language itself, e.g.
‘kyaba’, ‘ya:ta’, ‘bigya>bije’ etc. which should actually be spelt as ‘Kyabacha, Ya:tacha and Bigyacha’ respectively. Bista (1967), Chemjong (1967) and others have written such corrupted versions of their clan names (also cf. Morris 1927 & Rapacha1996). Most of the scholars, researchers and authors who do not have some even basic knowledge of their Mother Tongue make such silly mistakes or blunder.

What are their cult-pantheons?
Language
Chengu Puja