Tamangic
Geographic distribution	Nepal,India (Sikkim)
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri ? Tamangic
Subdivisions	Tamangic proper ("TGTM") Ghale Kaike
Language codes
Glottolog	kaik1248

TheTamangic languages,TGTM languages, orWest Bodish languages orKaike-Ghale-Tamangic languages (Glottolog), are a family ofSino-Tibetan languages spoken in the Himalayas ofNepal. They are called "West Bodish" by Bradley (1997), fromBod, the native term forTibet.TGTM stands forTamang-Gurung-Thakali-Manang.

Proto-TGTM has beenreconstructed in Mazaudon (1994). Tamangic is united with theBodish andWest Himalayish languages in Bradley's (1997) "Bodish" and Van Driem's (2001)Tibeto-Kanauri.

The Tamangic languages are:

• Tamang (several divergent varieties, with a million speakers)
• Gurung (two varieties with low mutual intelligibility)
• Thakali (including the Seke dialect; ethnically Tamang)
• Manang language cluster: the closely relatedManang,Gyasumdo,Nar Phu, andNyeshangte languages.
• Chantyal
• Ghale languages (Ghale andKutang): spoken by ethnic Tamang, perhaps related to Tamangic.
• Kaike (moribund): may be the most divergent.

• Bradley, David (1997). "Tibeto-Burman languages and classification". InTibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas, Papers in South East Asian linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
• George van Driem (2001)Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.
• Georg, Stefan (1996).Marphatan Thakali. Untersuchungen zur Sprache des Dorfes Marpha im Oberen Kali-Gandaki-Tal/Nepal. München: LINCOM EUROPA.ISBN 90-04-09905-0.
• Mazaudon, Martine. 1994. Problèmes de comparatisme et de reconstruction dans quelques langues de la famille tibéto-birmane. Thèse d'Etat, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.

• Tamangic languages
• Languages of Nepal

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