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Tamang
Learn about Tamang through verified cultural context, key facts, regions, traditions and references.
Family
Sino-Tibetan (Tamangic)
Where
Hills ringing the Kathmandu Valley; Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Sindhupalchok, Makwanpur
Speakers
≈ 5.1% (2011)
Script
Devanagari; Sambhota used in monasteries
Note
The largest Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal's hills, central to the valley rim's Buddhist culture and its folk song tradition, the Tamang selo.