Tamang, Southwestern
A language of Nepal
| Population | 109,000 (1991 census). |
| Region | Narayani zone, west Makwanpur and Chitawan districts, and south and southwest. Possibly in Bagmati zone, west and northwest Kathmandu District area. Migrations to the Terai. |
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Western Nepal, reference number 98 |
| Dialects | Preliminary results: 86% intelligibility with Western Trisuli Tamang [tdg], 87% by Central-Eastern Tamang [taj], 54%–67% by Outer-Eastern Tamang [taj]. Relationship within Tamang still needs evaluation. Southwestern Tamang has 80% lexical similarity with Western Trisuli Tamang [tdg], 76%–78% with Western Rasuwa dialect [tdg], 78% with Northwestern Tamang [tmk], 70%–73% with Eastern Gorkha Tamang [tge], 77%–93% with Eastern Tamang [taj]. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Himalayish, Tibeto-Kanauri, Tibetic, Tamangic |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L1: 1%–10%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–75%. |
| Comments | Tamang recognized as an official nationality. SOV; postpositions; genitives after nouns; relatives before nouns; question word medial; CV, CVC, CCV, V, CCVC, CVCCC; tonal. Swidden and peasant agriculturalists. |
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