- ISO 15924
Qa57- Family
- Indic
- Type
- abugida
- Direction
- unspecified
- Baseline
- unspecified
- Word separation
- unspecified
- Ligatures
- unspecified
- Status
- Unclear
- Unicode
- true
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 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