| Thakali | |
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| थकाली | |
| Native to | Nepal |
| Ethnicity | 12,000Thakali (2021 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 4,200 (2002–2021 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Devanagari (modern)[2] Tibetan script (historical)[3] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:ths – Thakaliskj – Seke |
| Glottolog | thak1245 Thakaliseke1240 Seke |
| ELP | Thakali |
| Seke (Nepal) | |
 Thakali is classified as Definitely Endangered by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Thakali is aSino-Tibetan language ofNepal spoken by theThakali people, mainly in theMyagdi andMustang Districts. Its dialects have limitedmutual intelligibility.
Seke (Serke,Tangbe, Tetang, Chuksang) is sometimes considered a separate language.[1] Other names and dialect names are Barhagaule, Marpha, Panchgaunle, Puntan Thakali, Syang, Tamhang Thakali, Thaksaatsaye, Thaksatsae, Thaksya, Tukuche, Yhulkasom.[4] Seke (Serke) is spoken in the villages of Tangbe, Tetang, Chuksang, Chaile, and Gyakar inMustang District, northern Nepal. Martine Mazaudon has documented the Tangbe dialect of Seke as spoken by an expatriate speaker in Paris.[5] Honda (2002) also documented two other dialects of Seke, Tetang and Chuksang.[6]
Thakali is spoken in the middle of theKali Gandaki River valley and in the upper part of theKali Gandaki Gorge (also known as Thak Khola), inMustang District,Gandaki Province. The Thakali area is bounded byAnnapurna Himal on one side andDhawalagiri Himal on the other, with Tatopani village in the south and Jomsom in the north (Ethnologue).
The Tukuche dialect is spoken from Tukuche to Thaksatsae, in 13 villages: Tukuche, Khanti, Kobang, Larjung, Dampu, Naurikot, Bhurjungkot, Nakung, Tithi, Kunjo, Taglung, Lete, Ghansa. Many live outside the area.
Seke is spoken by Gurung of Chuksang, Tsaile, Tangbe, Tetang, and Gyakar villages ofMustang District,Dhawalagiri Zone. There are only 700 native speakers of this language, 100 of whom live inNew York City. Reportedly, half of the New York City speakers live in the same apartment building.[7][8][9]
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Thakali.
Seke has the following dialects.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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| Proto-languages | |||||
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