Tangam: Critically Endangered Language of Arunachal Pradesh
Why in news?
- Recently Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister released a book titled “Tangams: An Ethnolinguistic Study of The Critically Endangered Group of Arunachal Pradesh”.
About 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 language family — is marked ‘critically endangered’.
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Languages of Arunachal Pradesh
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