Kham Magar (Nepali: खाम मगर ) and Northern Magar are descriptive terms invented by academic linguists and anthropologists for a nationality in the Middle Hills of mid-western Nepal inhabiting highlands extending through eastern Rukum and northern Salyan, Rolpa and Pyuthan Districts in Rapti Zone as well as adjacent parts of Dhaulagiri and Bheri Zones. They speak a complex of Tibeto-Burman dialects called Kham not mutually intelligible with Nepal's other Tibeto-Burman languages.
The present Kham homeland was part of the historic confederation Ather Magarat आथार मगरात (Eighteen Magar Kingdoms) extending from the Kaligandaki River west across the basin of the West Rapti to the Bheri. East of the Kaligandaki there was another confederation called Bahra Magarat बाह्र मगरात (Twelve Magar Kingdoms).
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