Takpa language
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Takpa | |
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Tawang Monpa | |
དཀ་པ་ཁ་, dakpakha | |
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Region | India; Bhutan; Lhoka, Tibet |
Ethnicity | Takpa |
Native speakers | 9,100 in India (2006)[1] 2,000 in Bhutan (2011);[2] 1,300 in China (2000 census)[3] |
Tibetan script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:dka – Dakpatwm – Tawang Monpa |
Glottolog | dakp1242 |
ELP |
The Takpa or Dakpa language (Tibetan: དཀ་པ་ཁ་, Wylie: dak pa kha), Dakpakha, known in India as Tawang Monpa,[4] is an East Bodish language spoken in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh, claimed by Tibet as a part of Lho-kha Sa-khul, and in northern Trashigang District in eastern Bhutan, mainly in Kyaleng(Shongphu gewog), Phongmed Gewog, Dangpholeng and Lengkhar near Radi Gewog.[5][6] Van Driem (2001) describes Takpa as the most divergent of Bhutan's East Bodish languages,[7] though it shares many similarities with Bumthang. SIL reports that Takpa may be a dialect of the Brokpa language and that it been influenced by the Dzala language whereas Brokpa has not.[6]
Takpa is mutually unintelligible with Monpa of Zemithang and Monpa of Mago-Thingbu.[8] Monpa of Zemithang is another East Bodish language, and is documented in Abraham, et al. (2018).[9]
Wangchu (2002) reports that Tawang Monpa is spoken in Lhou, Seru, Lemberdung, and Changprong villages, Tawang District, Arunachal Pradesh.
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References[edit]
- ^ ISO change request
- ^ Dakpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Tawang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
- ^ van Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy in Bhutan" (PDF). London: SOAS. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ a b "Dakpakha". Ethnologue Online. Dallas: SIL International. 2006. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ van Driem, George (2001). Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill Publishers.
- ^ Blench, Roger; Post, Mark (2011), (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-26
- ^ Abraham, Binny, Kara Sako, Elina Kinny, Isapdaile Zeliang. 2018. Sociolinguistic Research among Selected Groups in Western Arunachal Pradesh: Highlighting Monpa. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2018-009.
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