Tamangic languages
# Tamangic languages

The Tamangic languages, TGTM languages, or West Bodish languages, are a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in the Himalayas of Nepal. They are called "West Bodish" by Bradley (1997), from Bod, the native term for Tibet. TGTM stands for Tamang-Gurung-Thakali-Manang.

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

## Languages

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 related Manang, Gyasumdo, Nar Phu, and Nyeshangte languages.
* Chantyal
* Ghale languages (Ghale and Kutang): spoken by ethnic Tamang, perhaps related to Tamangic.
* Kaike (moribund): may be the most divergent.
