Tamang language

Tamang
Tamang
तामाङ, རྟ་དམག་ / རྟ་མང་/
Native to	Nepal; India; Bhutan
Ethnicity	Tamang/Moormi
Native speakers	1.35 million in Nepal (2011 census); 20,154 in India (2011 census)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tamangic Tamang; ;
Writing system	Tamyig script, Devanagari, Tibetan
Official status
Official language in	Nepal Bagmati Province; India Sikkim (additional);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; taj – Eastern Tamang; tdg – Western Tamang; tge – Eastern Gorkha Tamang
Glottolog	nucl1729

Tamang (Devanagari: तामाङ; tāmāng) is a term used to collectively refer to a dialect cluster spoken mainly in Nepal, Sikkim, West Bengal (Darjeeling) and North-Eastern India. 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% and 63%. For comparison, lexical similarity between Spanish and Portuguese, is estimated at 89%.

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