Tamang language

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].

Selected ethnic groups of Nepal; Bhotia , Sherpa , Thakali , Gurung , Kirant , Rai , Limbu , Nepal Bhasa , Pahari , Tamang (note that Kulu Rodu (Kulung) territories are mistakenly marked as Tamu/Gurung territories in this map)