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Name: Tamang, Western
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Tamang; Murmi; 5 varieties: Tamang (Eastern)/...; Tāmāng; Ishāng; Sain; Bhōtiā; Ishang; Tamang,Western
Spoken in: Nepal, India
Number of speakers: 323,000 (2000) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 322598 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: tdg
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Sino-Tibetan
Parent Subgroup: Tamangic; Gurung Branch (tmac)
Child Dialects: Southwestern (tdg-sou) Northwestern; Dhading (tdg-nor) Rasuwa (tdg-ras) Trisuli; Nuwakot (tdg-tri)

Endangerment Status


Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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