Tangam: Critically Endangered Language of Arunachal Pradesh

Recently Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister released a book titled “Tangams: An Ethnolinguistic Study Of The Critically Endangered Group of Arunachal Pradesh”.

Tangams

  • The Tangams are a little-known community within the larger Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh and reside in the hamlet of Kugging in Upper Siang district’s Paindem circle, with 253 reported speakers.
  • As per the UNESCO World Atlas of Endangered Languages (2009), Tangam — an oral language that belongs to the Tani group, under the greater Tibeto-Burman languagefamily — is marked ‘critically endangered’.

Risks Faced by Languages in Arunachal Pradesh

  • Multilingualism: Kugging hamlet is surrounded by a number of villages ....
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