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Tamang (Devnagari:?????) is a term used to collectively refer to a dialect cluster spoken in parts of Nepal
Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and is the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by India....
 and Sikkim
Sikkim

Sikkim is a landlocked States and territories of India nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India, and the second-smallest in area after Goa....
. 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
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 and Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
, for instance, is estimated at 89%.








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Tamang (Devnagari:?????) is a term used to collectively refer to a dialect cluster spoken in parts of Nepal
Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and is the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by India....
 and Sikkim
Sikkim

Sikkim is a landlocked States and territories of India nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India, and the second-smallest in area after Goa....
. 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
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 and Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
, for instance, is estimated at 89%.

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 Tibeto-Burman language in Nepal.

Grammar

Some grammatical features of Tamang languages are
  • SOV
    Subject Object Verb

    In linguistic typology, Subject Object Verb is the type of languages in which the subject , object , and verb of a sentence appear or usually appear in that order....
  • postpositions;
  • genitives after noun
    Noun

    In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open class lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition....
    s;
  • question
    Question

    A question may be either a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or else the request itself made by such an expression. This information is provided with an answer....
     word medial
    Medial (linguistics)

    In linguistics, medial may refer to the following:* The glide that occurs before the main vowel of a syllable, especially in Chinese language phonology ...
    ;
  • ergative
    Ergative

    The term ergative is used in grammar in three different meanings:* Ergative case,* Ergative-absolutive language* Ergative verb...
    ;
  • CV, CVC, CCV, V, CCVC;


Phonetically Tamang languages are tonal
Tonal language

A tonal language is a language that uses tone to distinguish words. Tone is a Phonology common to many languages around the world . Various Chinese language languages such as Mandarin, Min Nan/Taiwanese Minnan and Cantonese are perhaps the most well-known of such languages....
.

Writing system

Tamang languages use Tam-Yig which is similar to Tibetan script
Tibetan script

The Tibetan script is an abugida of Brahmic family origin used to write the Tibetan language as well as the Dzongkha language, Ladakhi language and sometimes the Balti language....
s and Devanagari
Devanagari

, or 'Nagari', is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal. It is written from left to right, lacks distinct letter cases, and is recognizable by a distinctive horizontal line running along the tops of the letters that links them together....
.

See also

Tamang
Tamang

The Tamang are one of the several ethnic groups living in Nepal descended from Tibeto-Burman origins. The word Tamang may be derived from the Tibetan words "ta" and "mang", meaning horse and soldier respectively....
 (ethnic group
Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of humans whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or presumed.Ethnic identity is further marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness and the recognition of common culture, linguistic, religion, human behaviour or Race traits, real or presumed, as indic...
)

Gurung
Gurung

The Gurung is an ethnic group from the Central region of Nepal. They live primarily in West Nepal?s Gandaki Zone zone, specifically Lamjung district, Kaski district, Tanahu district, Gorkha district, Parbat district and Syangja district districts as well as the Manang district around the Annapurna mountain range....
  (ethnic group)

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