Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 taj
Eastern Tamang Language तामाङ
Eastern Tamang is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 1.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Eastern Tamang is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Eastern Tamang
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Bodic
- Kaike-Ghale-Tamangic
- Ghale-Tamangic
- Tamangic
- Nuclear Tamang
- Eastern Tamang
Writing system
Devanagari script
About the Eastern Tamang language
Eastern Tamang (तामाङ) is spoken by about 1.2 million people, which makes it the 436th most spoken language in the world — just behind Eastern Hongshuihe Zhuang (1.2 million) and ahead of Standard Estonian (1.2 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Nuclear Tamang group within the Kaike-Ghale-Tamangic branch.
Where is Eastern Tamang spoken?
Eastern Tamang is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Nepal (133,826).
Eastern Tamang is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Eastern Tamang is written in the Devanagari script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 taj.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.