Discover Nepal guide

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.