Tamang people
Moormi Bhotey | |
|---|---|
 Tamang woman | |
| Total population | |
| c. 1.7 million | |
 Nepal 1,539,830 [1] | |
 India 183,812 | |
| West Bengal | 146,203 (2011) [2] |
| Sikkim | 37,609 (2011)[3] |
| Languages | |
| Tamang, Nepali, Tamang | |
| Religion | |
| (majority):Buddhism 87.29%, (minority): Hinduism 8.88%, Christian and others 4.83% Nepal census (2011), [4] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Tibetan people, Bhotiya, Thakali, | |
The Tamang are an indigenous Tibetano-Burmese-speaking ethnic tribal group from Nepal whose cast name is Tamang. In Nepal, Tamang/Moormi people make for 1.539,830 persons, or 5.6% of the country's total population, up from 1.3 million in 2001.[5]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Demography Population Nepal Census 2011" (PDF).
- ↑ "Population of West Bengal 2011".
- ↑ "Population of Sikkim 2011".
- ↑ "Caste ethnicity and religion of Nepal Ministry of Health" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-05-31. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
- ↑ "Report on Socio-Economic Status of Tamang–Kavre". Nefin.org.np. Archived from the original on 2013-03-12. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
