Thangmi
[alias Thami, Dolakha, Thāmī]Klassifizierung: Sino-Tibetan
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Bedroht
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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18991
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33500-38500
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The ethnic population number includes the Thangmi living in Nepal and India.
- DATUM DER INFORMATION
- 2001 census for the speaker number
- NUTZUNGSBEREICHE
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- ENTWICKLUNGSTENDENZEN BEI SPRECHERN
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- VERBREITUNG
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- MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT
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"[C]hildren and youths up to the age of twenty speak Nepali as their first language.... While as a heritage ethnic tongue, Thangmi is still widely understood, many in this age group speak the Thangmi language with a reduced phonology and with a heavy reliance on Nepali loan words." (p. 103)
- ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN
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Nepali
- KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT
"Thangmi men and women over the age of fifty are often monolingual Thangmi speakers, while Thangmi youths under twenty years of age usually have lisle more than a passive understanding of their own tongue. The middle generation, between the ages of twenty and fifty are most likely to be bilingual, using Thangmi for most intra-ethnic linguistic exchanges and Nepali in conversations with members of other ethnic groups and castes." (p. 101)
- ORTE
- Nepal; India
- ORTSBESCHREIBUNG
mostly in Dolakhā, Sindhupālcok, Jhāpā, Rāmechāp, Ilām, and Moraṅ districts of Nepal; Thamigaon and West Pendam in east Sikkim, and the area around Darjeeling municipality and the villages encircling tea plantations in Bijanbārī, Siṅlā and Tāmsāṅ of West Bengal of India