Tamang language

Ethnologue divides Tamang into the following distinct languages due to mutual unintelligibility with each other. • Eastern Tamang: 759,000 in Nepal (2000 WCD). Population total all countries: 773,000. Sub-dialects are as follows. • Outer-Eastern Tamang (Sailung Tamang) • Central-Eastern Tamang (Temal Tamang) • Southwestern Tamang (Kath-Bhotiya, Lama Bhote, Murmi, Rongba, Sain, Tamang Gyoi, Tamang Gyot, Tamang Lengmo, Tamang Tam) • Western Tamang: 323,000 (2000 WCD). Sub-dialects are as follows. • Trisuli (Nuwakot) • Rasuwa • Northwestern dialect of Western Tamang (Dhading) — was having separate ISO code tmk, merged with tdg in 2023. Population 55,000 (1991 census). Spoken in the central mountainous strip of Nuwakot District, Bagmati Province. • Southwestern dialect of Western Tamang • Eastern Gorkha Tamang: 4,000 (2000 WCD). Sub-dialects are as follows. • Kasigaon • Kerounja The Tamang language is the most widely spoken Sino-Tibetan language in Nepal. ==Geographical distribution==

Ethnologue gives the following location information for the varieties of Tamang. Eastern Tamang • Bagmati Province: Bhaktapur District, Chitwan District, Dolkha District, Kathmandu District, Kavrepalanchok District, Lalitpur District, Makwanpur District, eastern Nuwakot District, Ramechhap District, Sindhuli District and western Sindhupalchowk District • Province No. 1: Okhaldhunga District, western Khotang District, and Udayapur District Southwestern Tamang • Bagmati Province: Chitwan District, southern Dhading District, western and northwestern Kathmandu District area and northwestern Makwanpur District • Province No. 2: Bara District, Parsa District and Rautahat District Western Tamang • Bagmati Province: western Nuwakot District, Rasuwa District, and Dhading District • central mountainous strip of Nuwakot District, Bagmati Province (Northwestern Tamang) • northeastern Sindhupalchok District, Bagmati Province: Bhote Namlan, and Bhote Chaur, on Trishuli river west bank toward Budhi Gandaki river • northwestern Makwanpur District, Bagmati Province: Phakel, Chakhel, Khulekhani, Markhu, Tistung, and Palung • northern Kathmandu District, Bagmati Province: Jhor, Thoka, and Gagal Phedi Eastern Tamang • south and east of Jagat, northern Gorkha District, Gandaki Province == Grammar ==

Some grammatical features of the Tamang languages include: • A canonical word order of SOV • Use of postpositions; • The genitives precede nouns; • question word medial; • It is an ergative–absolutive language; • CV, CVC, CCV, V, CCVC; Phonetically Tamang languages are tonal. ==Phonology==

Consonants Vowels Nasality only marginally occurs, and is typically transcribed with a mark. Tones Four tones occur as high falling , mid-high level , mid-low level , very low . == Writing system ==

Tamang language is written in prakriti. ==References==