Tamangic languages

Not to be confused with Tamanic languages.
Tamangic
Geographic
distribution:
Nepal
Linguistic classification:

Sino-Tibetan

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: kaik1248[1]

The Tamangic languages, TGTM languages, or West Bodish languages, are a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in the Himalayas of Nepal. They are called West Bodish by Bradley (1997).

The languages are:

The Ghale languages, spoken by ethnic Tamang, seems to be related to Tamangic, but not enough is known to be sure.

Moribund Kaike may be the most divergent.

Classification

Tamangic is united with the Bodish and West Himalayish languages in Bradley's (1997) "Bodish" and Van Driem's (2001) Tibeto-Kanauri.

Footnotes

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kaike–Ghale–Tamangic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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