Tangam
Region	Arunachal Pradesh
Native speakers	150[1] (2013-01-10)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tani Western (?) Tangam
Language codes
ISO 639-3	included underAdi [adi]
Glottolog	tang1377
ELP	Tangam
Tangam is classified as Critically Endangered language by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[2]

Tangam is an endangeredSino-Tibetan language of theTani subgroup spoken inArunachal Pradesh state inNortheast India. The total number of Tangam speakers has been alternatively estimated at 150^[3] and 253.^[4] The primary Tangam village isKuging[kugɨŋ], which is located at 28°57'22"N and 94°59'25"E, approximately four hours' walk fromTuting inUpper Siang district. Tangam speakers are also found in some neighbouring villages, as well as in Tuting town.

Most Tangam are hill tribespeople, with a material culture that is similar to that of mostTani peoples of theSiang River valley. However, due to close present and historical contacts withMemba (Bodic-speaking) peoples ofTibet andArunachal Pradesh, Tangam have also adopted someTibetan cultural traits.

In the only large-scale work to treat the Tani languages, Sun (1993) had no access to Tangam data and supposed it to be a variety ofDamu.^[5] Post (July 2013) suggested that this was probably not the case, and that Tangam was a distinct Tani language, being mutually-unintelligible to a large extent with any other Tani language.^[1] Genealogically, Tangam may align with the Western Tani languages, although it resembles the Eastern Tani languages with which it is in contact to a greater degree.^[6]

A comprehensive description of Tangam (grammar, lexicon and texts) was published in 2017.^[3]

• Lomdak, Lisa, ed. (2018).The People's Linguistic Survey of India Volume 4: Arunachal Pradesh - Part 2 (English). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
• Post, Mark W. (10 July 2013a).The Tangam language of Kugɨŋ Təəraŋ. 46th International Conference of Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Hanover, Dartmouth College.
• Post, Mark W. (9 August 2013b).Defoliating the Tani Stammbaum: An exercise in areal linguistics. 13th Himalayan Languages Symposium. Canberra, Australian National University.
• Post, Mark W. (2017).The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts. Leiden: Brill.ISBN 978-90-04-34488-4.
• Sun, Tian-Shin Jackson (1993).A Historical-Comparative Study of the Tani (Mirish) Branch of Tibeto-Burman (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley, Department of Linguistics.

• Tani languages
• Languages of Arunachal Pradesh
• Upper Siang district
• Critically endangered languages
• Endangered languages of India
• Endangered Sino-Tibetan languages

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