Thangmi
[également appelé Thami, Dolakha, Thāmī]Classification : Sino-Tibetan
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Menacée
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.
- DATE OF INFO
- 2001 census for the speaker number
- DOMAINES D'UTILISATION
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- TENDANCES AU NIVEAU DES LOCUTEURS
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- TRANSMISSION
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- MORE ON VITALITY
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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)
- AUTRES LANGUES PARLÉES PAR LA COMMUNAUTÉ
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Nepali
- COMMENTAIRES SUR LE CONTEXTE DE LA LANGUE
"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)
- PLACES
- Nepal; India
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
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