Rawat or "Janggali" (Jungle

Jungle

A Jungle is an area of land in the tropics overgrown with dense vegetation.The word jungle originates from the Sanskrit word jangala which referred to uncultivated land. Although the Sanskrit word refers to "dry land", it has been suggested that an Anglo-Indian interpretation led to its...

), is a possibly Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal

Nepal

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, with maybe a thousand speakers in India

India

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. The name Rawat is cognate with Raute.

Ethnologue (2009) states that Rawat is "Very similar to Raute and Raji" and "Related to Rongpo", languages in different branches of Tibeto-Burman. It then states that it is "Indo-Aryan

Indo-Aryan

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but vocabulary includes Tibetan elements", suggesting that the language family has not been determined. The similarity in names in not indicative: "Rawat", "Raute", and "Raji" all derive from "King (of the forest)", a common appellation of forest peoples in the region.