Tamang language

Tamang तामाङ
Spoken in:	Nepal, India, Bhutan
Region:	South Asia
Total speakers:	1 million approx.
Language family:	Sino-Tibetan  Tibeto-Burman   Himalayish    Tamang
Writing system:	Uchen script, Devnagari[[तामयिग ]]
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	–
ISO 639-3:	taj
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Tamang (Devnagari:तामाङ) is a term used to collectively refer to a group of languages spoken in parts of Nepal and Sikkim. It comprises Eastern Tamang, Northwestern Tamang, Southwestern Tamang, Eastern Gorkha Tamang, and Western Tamang. Lexical similarity between Eastern Tamang (which is regarded as the most prominent) and other Tamang languages varies between 81% to 63%; lexical similarity between Spanish and Portuguese, for instance, is estimated at 89%^{[citation needed]}.

Contents 1 Classification 2 Dialects 3 Grammar 4 Writing system 5 See also 6 External links

Classification

According to ethnologue.com Tamang languages are classified as follows:

• Sino-Tibetan

• Tibeto-Burman

• Himalayish

• Tibeto-Kanauri

• Uchen

• Tamangic

• Tamang, Eastern [taj]
• Tamang, Eastern Gorkha [tge]
• Tamang, Northwestern [tmk]
• Tamang, Southwestern [tsf]
• Tamang, Western [tdg]

ISO 639-3 identifiers are given in brackets.

Dialects

The Tamang language has further been subdivided into the following dialects-

• Eastern Tamang: 759,257 in Nepal (2000 WCD). Population total all countries: 773,257;
• Western Tamang: 322,598 (2000 WCD);
• Southwestern Tamang: 109,051 (1991 census);
• Northwestern Tamang: 55,000 (1991 census);
• Eastern Gorkha Tamang: 3,977 (2000 WCD).

Tamang language is the largest Tamangic language in Nepal.

Grammar

Some grammatical features of Tamang languages are

• SOV
• postpositions;
• genitives after nouns;
• question word medial;
• ergative;
• CV, CVC, CCV, V, CCVC;

Phonetically Tamang languages are tonal.

Writing system

Tamang languages use Devanāgarī and Uchen scripts.

See also

Tamang (ethnic group)

Gurung (ethnic group)

External links

• Counting in Tamang
• Ethnologue
• Tamangs.com[hi:तामयिग

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