title: Tamangic languages
text: # 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.
  