Tilung
[también conocido como Tiling, Tilling, Tilung Blama]Clasificación: Sino-Tibetan
·en peligro crítico de extinción
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En peligro crítico de extinción
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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7
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2000
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7
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"only 7 elderly people above 60 could speak their language fluently. People over 40 could speak the language with the heavy borrowing (mostly nouns) from Nepali." (p. 143)
- FECHA DE INFORMACIÓN
- 2002 (2058 V.S.)
- DOMINIOS DE USO
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- TENDENCIAS DE HABLANTES
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- TRANSMISIÓN
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- MÁS SOBRE LA VITALIDAD
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"only 7 elderly people above 60 could speak their language fluently. People over 40 could speak the language with the heavy borrowing (mostly nouns) from Nepali, the youth from 30-40 can understand some Tilung but the young generation below 30 neither speaks the language nor understands it. Children do not learn the language because young parents do not speak the language and the elderly parents tend to use the language only when they do not want their children to know what they are talking about." (p. 143)
- APOYO GUBERNAMENTAL
- no
- APOYO INSTITUCIONAL
- no
- OTRAS LENGUAS UTILIZADAS POR LA COMUNIDAD
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Nepali
- COMENTARIOS SOBRE CONTEXTO DE LA LENGUA
All Tilung speakers are bilingual in Nepali and Nepali already became the mother tongue of younger generations.
- Alfabetos, sistemas de escritura y ortografías
- no
- LUGARES
- Nepal
- DESCRIPCIÓN DE LA UBICACIÓN
"in small hamlets scattered in the different 7 wards of Chyasmitar Village Development Committee (VDC) in the Khotang district. "