Thangmi language
| Thangmi | |
|---|---|
| Region | Nepal |
Native speakers | 24,000 (2011 census)[1] |
|
Sino-Tibetan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
thf |
| Glottolog |
than1259[2] |
Thangmi, also called Thami, Thangmi Kham, Thangmi Wakhe, and Thani, is a small Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Nepal by the Thami people.[1]
Thangmi is spoken in the "Janakpur Zone, Dolakha District, villages north and west; Ramechhap District, villages on Sailung Khola; Bagmati Zone, Sindhupalchok District, villages east" and Kathmandu.[1]
The Thangmi language was the subject of a BBC radio documentary in 2012.[3]
An online Thangmi–Nepali–English dictionary is available.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Thangmi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Thangmi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ "Our Language in Your Hands, Nepal". BBC Radio 4. 2012-12-03. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
- ↑ "Online trilingual Thangmi - Nepali - English Unicode dictionary / Thangmi Archive". Digital Himalaya. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
Further reading
- Turin, Mark (2012), A grammar of Thangmi language. 2012.