Tangsa (Mossang)

The Tangsa (also called Tangshang or Hawa) are a cluster of about 70 sub-tribes who live along the border of India and Myanmar. There are just under 100,000 people classed in this people group, approximately ¾ of whom are in Myanmar and ¼ are in India. It is believed that they migrated from the Indo-Tibetan plateau (what is now Mongolia) in the 12th or 13th century. They speak a number of linguistic varieties which are grouped together under the name Tase Naga and given the ISO code \\\nst\\\". Although these are currently officially classed as one language