Chocangaca language

Chocangacakha
Spoken in Bhutan
Native speakers 20,000  (1993)[1]
Language family
Writing system Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cgk

Chocangacakha (Dzongkha: ཁྱོད་ཅ་ང་ཅ་ཁ་; Wylie: Khyod-ca-nga-ca-kha; also called "Cho-ca-nga-ca-kha," "Kursmadkha," "Maphekha," "Rtsamangpa'ikha," and "Tsagkaglingpa'ikha") is a Southern Tibetan language spoken by about 20,000 people in the Kurichu Valley of Lhuntse and Mongar Districts in eastern Bhutan.[2][1] Chocangacakha is a "sister language" to Dzongkha, however under pressure to assimilate into the mainstream Dzongkha speaking Ngalop culture, this proximity has resulted in significant loss of its particularly distinctive "Kurichu linguistic substrait."[1][3]

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References

  1. ^ a b c van Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy in Bhutan" (PDF). London: SOAS. http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:3003. Retrieved 2011-01-18. 
  2. ^ "Chocangacakha". Ethnologue Online. Dallas: SIL International. 2006. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cgk. Retrieved 2011-01-18. 
  3. ^ van Driem, George (2007). Matthias Brenzinger. ed. Language diversity endangered. Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, Mouton Reader. 181. Walter de Gruyter. p. 312. ISBN 3110170507. http://books.google.com/books?id=6p6b5GQ4Q4YC. 
Tibeto-Burman
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Indo-Aryan