Thakali language
Sinto-Tibetan language spoken in Nepal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thakali is a Sino-Tibetan language of Nepal spoken by the Thakali people, mainly in the Myagdi and Mustang Districts. Its dialects have limited mutual intelligibility.
Thakali | |
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थकाली | |
Native to | Nepal |
Ethnicity | 12,000 Thakali (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)[4] |
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.[5] Seke (Serke) is spoken in the villages of Tangbe, Tetang, Chuksang, Chaile, and Gyakar in Mustang District, northern Nepal. Martine Mazaudon has documented the Tangbe dialect of Seke as spoken by an expatriate speaker in Paris.[6] Honda (2002) also documented two other dialects of Seke, Tetang and Chuksang.[7]