Tangsa language

Tangsa
Tase
Native to Burma, India
Ethnicity Tangsa people
Native speakers
110,000 (2001 census – 2012)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
nst  Tangsa (multiple varieties)
nqq  Kyan-Karyaw
nlq  Lao Naga
Glottolog tase1235  (Tase Naga)[2]

Tangsa, also Tase and Tase Naga, is a Sino-Tibetan languages or language cluster spoken by the Tangsa people of Burma and north-eastern India. Some varieties, such as Shangge, are likely distinct languages.

References

  1. Tangsa (multiple varieties) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kyan-Karyaw at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Lao Naga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tase Naga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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