De Gruyter Mouton, 1999. — 628 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation 17). The Chantyal people are a relatively small ethnic group, numbering no more than 10,000. They can be divided into two groups, the Myagdi Chantyal and the Baglung Chantyal, named for the districts they inhabit within the Dhaulagiri Zone of central Nepal. Until the recent immigration to towns and...
SOAS, University of London, 2015. — 404 p. This thesis investigates grammatical relations in Tamang, a (Tibeto-Burman) Sino-Tibetan language with roughly one million mother-tongue speakers, who live predominantly in the central hills of Nepal. Sino-Tibetan languages are known for their diversity of morphosyntactic profiles for expressing predicate-participant relations, which...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1979. — viii + 216 p. This course is for persons beginning the study of the Gurung language. It has been designed with the needs of anthropologists, social scientists, and field workers in mind. The dialect represented is primarily that of the Seti Valley villages north-west of Pokhara. The first eighty lessons in this...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1977. — xiv + 316 p. Gurung is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by about 400,000 people, mostly living in Gandaki Zone in western Nepal. With Tamang, Thakali and Manang, Gurung is a member of the Gurung Family within the Bodish Substock, which also includes the Tibetan family, Kaike and Ghale. The dialect represented here is...
Himalayan Linguistics. — 2011. — Vol. 10 (1). — p. 167–185. This report contains preliminary descriptive and comparative information on Gyalsumdo, a variety of Tibetan that is spoken in the lower Manang District of Nepal. Based on select lexico-phonetic data recorded from one speaker in 2009 and 2010, and on data available from other languages of Manang and nearby Gorkhā...
Author unknown. 45 p. This study examines F0 variation in the lexical tone system of Manange (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal), with an eye to within- and between-speaker patterns of variation. Of particular relevance are the sociolinguistic and phonological dimensions of merger-type changes that are observed for some speakers and absent for others. An acoustic phonetic examination of...
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2000. — 13 p. The Chantyal language [Tibeto-Burman: Bodic: Bodish: Tamangic] is spoken by about 2000 of the 11,000 ethnic Chantyal in the Myagdi District of westcentral Nepal.1 Chantyal attests a number of Bodic demonstrative etymons, but only members of three sets retain clear demonstrative senses and oppositions based on spatial deixis.2 In...
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2007. — 8 p.
The Tamangic languages, TGTM languages, or West Bodish languages, are a family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in the Himalayas of Nepal. It is called West Bodish by Bradley (1997).
The languages are:
- Tamang (several divergent varieties, with a million speakers)
- Gurung (two varieties with low mutual intelligibility)
-...
Contributions to nepalese studies cnas tribhuvan university, 1990. - 24 p.
The Gurungs are a Tibeto-Burman people who have for centuries inhabited the southern slopes of the Himalaya in Central Nepal. Outside Nepal they have gained recognition-along with Magar, Limbu and Rai peoples-as tough soldiers in Gurkha regiments of the Indian and British armies.1 Their homeland is a...
The Bible Society in Nepal, 1987. — 16 p. The more than 116,000 Western Gurung are primarily located in the Kaski and Syangja districts, a central strip of mountainous country in the Western Gurung region of Nepal. The majority of their villages are situated on the mountain slopes at elevations between 1,000 and 2,000 meters (roughly 3,000 to 6,000 feet). Their language, also...
University of Oklahoma, 1974. - 232 p.
A thesis submitted In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, 1973. Gurung is a language spoken in the central west of Nepal. According to the report of the 1961 Census of Nepal, 157,778 persons claimed Gurung as their mother tongue, of whom most (146,600) lived...
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Dhankute Tamang is a dialect of Tamang that belongs to the group of non-pronominalising languages of Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. This dialect is
spoken in Dhankuta district of Nepal. This paper deals with Dhankute Tamang adverbs focusing on
the forms and functions. It is divided into 3 major parts. First part deals...
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The word ‘Tamang’ belongs to an ethnic indigenous people group of Nepal. Literally it has two meanings ‘Ta’-Horse and ‘Mang’- Worriers/Combatants. That means they were the horse riding worriers. According to the history, our ancestors were the worriers from Tibbet. They came to this land and made their habitats. Large numbers of Tamang people live...
Südasien-Chronik - South Asia-Chronicle, 2011. - 46 p. (393-437) In the Nepalese Constituent Assembly elections of 2008 among the 74 registered parties, the Tamsaling Nepal Rastriya Dal (Tamsaling Nepal National Party, TRD) promoted the concept of transforming Nepal into a federal state based on ethnic groups’1 ancestral homelands. The claim for ethnic groups’...
2011. - 11 p.
Tamang (Devnagari: तामाङ; tāmāng) is a term used to collectively refer to a dialect cluster spoken mainly in Nepal and parts of Sikkim. It comprises Eastern Tamang, Northwestern Tamang, Southwestern Tamang, Eastern Gorkha Tamang, and Western Tamang. Lexical similarity between Eastern Tamang (which is regarded as the most prominent) and other Tamang languages...
University of California, 2007. — 210 p.
The primary goal of this work is to provide an introductory linguistic description of Manange, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Manang District of central northern Nepal. The Manange language has not been extensively documented and the material that is available on this language is incomplete and inconvenient to access. The...
2004. - 14 p.
I have been asked to give some advice on the development of a writing system for Tamang and tools to use in the classroom in order to teach reading and writing in Tamang. Further development of the use of Tamang (or for that matter other minority languages of Nepal) in education at a higher level will be outside the scope of my remarks.
Some valuable attempts...
Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, 2011. - 193 p.
Tamang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by over a million people in central Nepal. The two major varieties of Tamang are Eastern Tamang with approximately 759,000 speakers and Western Tamang with approximately 323,000 speakers (2000 census) which are mutually unintelligible languages. Eastern Tamang is divided into two...
Lacito, CNRS, 2006. — 12 p. Although the general classification of Tibeto-Burman languages remains uncertain, the Tamang language of Nepal belongs clearly in the broad group which Robert Shafer (Shafer 1955) called the "Bodish Section" of the "Bodic division" of Tibeto-Burman, of which Tibetan is the best known member. The Bodish section consists of two main branches, the...
2011. - 6 p.
The purpose of this document is to bring to the attention of the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) the Khema script for writing Gurung. The name ‘Gurung’ refers to two languages, Eastern Gurung (ISO 639: ggn) and Western Gurung (ISO 639: gvr). It is known indigenously as ‘Tamu’. Ethnologue reports that these two languages do not have adequate intelligibility to...
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Gurung belongs to Himalayan group of speeches, which are spoken along the tracts to the south of Himalayas from Himachal Pradesh in the west to the western borders of Bhutan in the east. It is affiliated to the Himalayan group of Tibeto-Burman sub family and it is primarily spoken in Sikkim.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. — 254 p. The Chantyal people are a relatively small ethnic group, numbering no more than 10, 000. They can be divided into two groups, the Myagdi Chantyal and the Baglung Chantyal, named for the districts they inhabit within the Dhaulagiri Zone of central Nepal. Until the recent immigration to towns and cities, the interaction between the two...