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Tamang language


Name	Tamang
Nativename	तामाङ
Familycolor	Sino-Tibetan
States	Nepal, India, Bhutan
Region	South Asia
Speakers	1,300 (2000)
Fam2	(Tibeto-Burman)
Fam3	Tamangic
Script	Tibetan script, Devnagari
Lc1	taj\|ld1=Eastern Tamang\|ll1=none
Lc2	tdg\|ld2=Western Tamang\|ll2=none
Lc3	tmk\|ld3=Northwestern Tamang\|ll3=none
Lc4	tsf\|ld4=Southwestern Tamang\|ll4=none
Lc5	tde\|ld5=Eastern Gorkha Tamang\|ll5=none

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Tamang (Devnagari: तामाङ; tāmāng) is a term used to collectively refer to a dialect cluster spoken in parts of Nepal and Sikkim. 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% to 63%; lexical similarity between Spanish and Portuguese, for instance, is estimated at 89% .

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