Dhimal-Toto

Dhimal-Toto or Dhimalish is not Sal, but rather part of a Greater Kiranti branch (cf. Grollmann & Pascal 2017; ASJP version 4). Similarities with Central Sino-Tibetan are due to the fact that Western Sino-Tibetan branches had their origins in the waves of Sino-Tibetan speakers who had migrated from Northeast India into Nepal.