Tamang
dialect cluster spoken mainly in Nepal ,Bhutan and India.
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Summary
Tamang is a dialect continuum[1].
Key Facts
- Country: India[2], Nepal[3]
- Subclass of: Sino-Tibetan[4]
- Writing system: Devanagari[5], Tibetan alphabet[6]
- Has part(s): Western Tamang[7], Eastern Tamang[8], Eastern Gorkha Tamang[9]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: {'amount': '+1200000'}[10]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[11]
- Indigenous to: Tamang people[12]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[13]
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Use and Application
Components include Western Tamang[7], a language[14], in Nepal[15]; Eastern Tamang[8], a language[16], in Nepal[17]; and Eastern Gorkha Tamang[9], a language[18], in Nepal[19].