Tangam
Classification: Sino-Tibetan
·severely endangered
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Severely endangered
40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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<200
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Less than 200 speakers of Tangam remain in the northernmost portion of Siang district inhabiting the three villages of Kuging, Ngering, Mayum and a few neighbouring hamlets in the northeastern corner of the Adi tribal region of Arunachal Pradesh, along the upper reaches of the rivers Siang and Nigong.
- SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
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- MORE ON VITALITY
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The Tangam were once numerous but were killed en masse by neighbouring tribes.
- PLACES
- India
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Arunachal Pradesh state, west bank of Siang river