Thangmi language

Thangmi
Region Nepal
Native speakers
24,000 (2011 census)[1]
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. 1 2 3 Thangmi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Thangmi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. "Our Language in Your Hands, Nepal". BBC Radio 4. 2012-12-03. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  4. "Online trilingual Thangmi - Nepali - English Unicode dictionary / Thangmi Archive". Digital Himalaya. Retrieved 2014-06-09.

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