Endangered Languages Project

CLASSIFICATION		Sino-Tibetan, Tamangic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		skj
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Tangbe Tetang Chuksang
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Related to Gurung. Some similarities with Thakali and Manangba. Very different from Lowa. Tangbe people do not understand Chuksang very well; but Chuksang understand Tangbe. They are reported to understand Gurung but Gurung speakers do not understand Seke.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~7,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Closely related to Thakali and located upstream from it."

					2007	South Asia and the Middle East	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	283-348		Christopher Moseley		London & New York: Routledge									George van Driem	George van Driem. 2007. "South Asia and the Middle East." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 283-348. London & New York: Routledge.	HHOLD					~7,000		1000-9999	"Closely related to Thakali and located upstream from it."												Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)								Nepal	Kālī Gaṇḍakī river valley.
0199255911					2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures				Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer		Oxford University Press			New York							2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.																															28.9166666667,83.75

Seke (Nepal)