Seke (Serke, Tangbe, Tetang, Chuksang) is a Tamangic language, sometimes considered a separate language from Thakali. Seke is spoken in the villages of Tangbe, Tetang, Chuksang, Chaile, and Gyakar in Mustang District, northern Nepal. Martine Mazaudon has documented the Tangbe dialect of Seke as spoken by an expatriate speaker in Paris.Mazaudon, Martine. 2023. The name of the Se(r)ke language and the reconstruction of a final -s in proto-TGTM (Tamangish). 26th Himalayan Languages Symposium, 4-6 September 2023. Paris: INALCO. Honda (2002) also documented two other dialects of Seke, Tetang and Chuksang.Honda, Isao. 2002. Seke phonology: a comparative study of three Seke dialects. [./Linguistics_of_the_Tibeto-Burman_Area Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area] 25(1): 191-210.
Geographical distribution Seke is spoken by Gurung of Chuksang, Tsaile, Tangbe, Tetang, and Gyakar villages of Mustang District, Dhawalagiri Zone. There are only 700 native speakers of this language, 100 of whom live in New York City. Reportedly, half of the New York City speakers live in the same apartment building.
Dialects Seke has the following dialects.
Tangbe Tetang Chuksang
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