Tangams
- July 24, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Arts and culture
Context:
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister released a book titled “Tangams: An Ethnolinguistic Study Of The Critically Endangered Group of Arunachal Pradesh”.
Concept:
- The Tangams are a little-known community within the larger Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh and reside in the hamlet of Kugging in Upper Siang district.
- As per the UNESCO World Atlas of Endangered Languages(2009), Tangam an oral language under the greater Tibeto-Burman language family is marked ‘critically endangered’.