India Tamang (Devanagari: तामाङ; tāmāng) is a term used to collectively refer to a Tibeto-Burman dialect cluster spoken mainly in Nepal, Sikkim, West Bengal (Darjeeling) and North-Eastern India.
For comparison, the lexical similarity between Spanish and Portuguese is estimated at 89%.
[4] Ethnologue divides Tamang into the following varieties due to mutual unintelligibility.
Nasality only marginally occurs, and is typically transcribed with a [ã] mark.
Four tones occur as high falling [â], mid-high level [á], mid-low level [à], very low [ȁ].