Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 tcn
Tichurong Language
Tichurong is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 4.2 million people in 1 country.
Where Tichurong is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Tichurong
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Bodic
- Bodish
- Early Old Tibetan
- Middle Old Tibetan
- Late Old Tibetan
- Central Tibetan
- South-Western Tibetic
- Dolpo-Tichurong
- Tichurong
Related languages
About the Tichurong language
Tichurong is spoken by about 4.2 million people, which makes it the 202nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Mazanderani (4.2 million) and ahead of Southern Uzbek (4.2 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Dolpo-Tichurong group within the Bodish branch.
Where is Tichurong spoken?
Tichurong is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Nepal (4.2 million).
Tichurong is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Tibetan, Khams Tibetan, Dzongkha and Amdo Tibetan.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 tcn.
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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.