Tangam language

Tangam
Region Arunachal Pradesh
Native speakers
150 (2013-01-10)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
  • Tani

    • Western (?)
      • Tangam
Language codes
ISO 639-3 included under adi
Glottolog tang1377[2]

Tangam is a Tani language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh state in North-East India. The primary Tangam village is Kuging [kugɨŋ], which is located at 28°57'22"N and 94°59'25"E, approximately four hours' walk from Tuting in Upper Siang district. Tangam speakers are also found in some neighbouring villages, as well as in Tuting town.

Most Tangam are hill tribespeople, with a material culture that is similar to that of most Tani peoples of the Siang River valley. However, due to close present and historical contacts with Memba (Bodic-speaking) peoples of Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh, Tangam have also adopted some Tibetan cultural traits.

In the only large-scale work to treat the Tani languages, Sun (1993) had no access to Tangam data and supposed it to be a variety of Damu. Post (2013a) suggested that this was probably not the case, and that Tangam was a distinct Tani language, being mutually-unintelligible to a large extent with any other Tani language. Genetically, Tangam may align with the Western Tani languages, although it resembles the Eastern Tani languages with which it is in contact to a greater degree.[3]

References

  1. Post 2013a
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tangam". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Post 2013b
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