The Takpa or Dakpa language (), ''Dakpakha'', known in India as Tawang Monpa, also known as Brami in Bhutan, is an
East Bodish language spoken in the Tawang district of
Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It share ...
, and in northern
Trashigang District
Trashigang District (Dzongkha: བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bkra-shis-sgang rdzong-khag''; also spelled "Tashigang") is Bhutan's easternmost dzongkhag (district).
Culture
The population of the district ...
in eastern
Bhutan
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, mainly in Kyaleng (Shongphu gewog),
Phongmed Gewog
Phongmed Gewog (Dzongkha: ཕོངས་མེད་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, in the East of Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked ...
, Dangpholeng and Lengkhar near
Radi Gewog.
(2001) describes Takpa as the most divergent of Bhutan's
East Bodish languages
The East Bodish languages are a small group of non-Tibetic Bodish languages spoken in eastern Bhutan and adjacent areas of Tibet and India. They include:
* Dakpa (Tawang Monpa)
* Dzala
* Nyen
Nyenschantz (russian: Ниенша́нц, ''Niensha ...
,
though it shares many similarities with
Bumthang.
SIL
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* Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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reports that Takpa may be a dialect of the
Brokpa language and that it been influenced by the
Dzala language whereas Brokpa has not.
[
Takpa is ]mutually unintelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as a ...
with Monpa of Zemithang
Zemithang or Zimithang, also called Pangchen, is a village and the headquarters of an eponymous circle in the Tawang district of Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It is on the bank of the Nyamjang Chu river, which originates in Tibet and enter ...
and Monpa of Mago-Thingbu
Thingbu is a settlement in Tawang district in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Location
It is located on the proposed Mago-Thingbu to Vijaynagar Arunachal Pradesh Frontier Highway along the McMahon Line, alignment map ...
.[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.
Wangchu (2002) reports that Tawang Monpa is spoken in Lhou, Seru, Lemberdung, and Changprong villages, Tawang District
Tawang district (Pron:/tɑ:ˈwæŋ or təˈwæŋ/) is the smallest of the 26 administrative districts of Arunachal Pradesh state in northeastern India. With a population of 49,977, it is the eighth least populous district in the country (out ...
, Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It share ...
.
Phonology
These tables represent the phonemes of the variety of Takpa spoken in China, in Tsona County. [Huang, 1992, p. 634.]
Vowels
Consonants
Monba is a tonal language
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information and to convey emph ...
, with four contour tones: ''55'', ''53'', ''35'', and ''31''.[Huang, 1992, p. 634.]
See also
*Languages of Bhutan
There are two dozen languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except for Nepali, which is an Indo-Aryan language, and Bhutanese Sign Language. Dzongkha, the national language, is the only native language of Bhutan with ...
References
External links
Himalayan Languages Project
East Bodish languages
Languages of Bhutan
Languages of India
Languages of China
Articles citing ISO change requests
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