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Name:
Tamang, Eastern
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Tamang; Murmi; 5 varieties: Tamang (Eastern)/...; Ishang; Sain; Tamang,Eastern
Spoken in:
Nepal, India, Myanmar, Bhutan
Number of speakers:
759,000 in Nepal (2000), increasing. Population total all countries: 773,000
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
1196639
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
773257
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
taj
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Sino-Tibetan
Parent Subgroup:
Tamangic; Gurung Branch (tmac)
Child Dialects:
Outer-Eastern Tamang (taj-out)
Southwestern Tamang (taj-sou)
Central-Eastern Tamang (taj-cen)
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Tamang, Eastern
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