Tamangic in India

Speakers

20,154

Type

Location

Tamangic in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Tamangic in India

Size

20,154

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
NER

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
No
Comments
Purna Yonzon. 2021. Tamang Jatiya Chinhari:Ek Jhalak SIKKIM AKADEMI 978-93-90991-55-6

Yoncan, Amrit. 2054 B.S. [1997]. Tamang vyakaran [Tamang grammar]. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy.

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
History, culture, songs and dance videos are available in Tamang language
https://archive.org/details/jesus-film-tamang-eastern-language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW32MM1XhkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5VuQwSeJbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzxqogMULfM

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/taj

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
M. Mazaudon, A.Michaud. 2008. Tonal Contrasts and Initial Consonants A Case Study of Tamang, a 'Missing Link' in Tonogenesis. Phonetica 2008. Vol.65 No. 4, 231p.

Poudel, Kedar Prasad. 2002. A Descriptive Study of Tamang. (Doctoral dissertation, Kirtipur: Tribhuvan University; 415pp.)

P. Perumalsamy. 2009. Tamang. In Sikkim: Part-I, 388-455. Kolkata, India: Language Division Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner.

Rameśakumār Tāmāṅ. 2000. Tāmāṅ tām-bon = Tamang-Nepali-English dictionary = Tāmāṅa śabda-kośa. Khoṭāṅa: Sāṅge 'Lo'sāṅ Tāmāṅa Gumbā. 232pp.

Varenkamp, Bryan. 1996. Tamang tam: a sociolinguistic study of Eastern Tamang dialects (in Nepal). Kirtipur: Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University. xx+135pp.

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use
Comments
Nepali script is used in writing system for Tamang language

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam

Size / Number of users

Number of users

20154
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Tamang

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Completion