Takpa language

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Takpa
Tawang Monpa
དཀ་པ་ཁ་, dakpakha
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]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish East Bodish Takpa
Writing system	Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: dka – Dakpa twm – Tawang Monpa
Glottolog	dakp1242
ELP	Dakpa Takpa

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.

See also[]

• Languages of Bhutan

References[]

External links[]

• Himalayan Languages Project

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