Tawang language
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| Tawang | |
|---|---|
| Takpa | |
| Monpa (generic) | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Lhoka, Tibet |
| Ethnicity | Takpa people |
Native speakers |
9,100 in India (2006)[1] 1,300 in China (2000 census)[2] |
| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
twm |
| Glottolog |
(insufficiently attested or not a distinct language)tawa1289[3] |
Tawang is an East Bodish language. It is spoken in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh, claim by Tibet as a part of Lho-kha Sa-khul. It is quite distinct from non-Eastern Tibetic languages, though it shares many similarities with Bumthang. It is written in the Tibetan alphabet.
Tawang is mutually unintelligible with Monpa of Zemithang and Monpa of Mago-Thingbu. There is no data currently available for these two languages, so they may or may not be Bodish.[4]
Phrases
mon khyet (Monpa language)
zi tshai du lo? (What are you Searching?)
ik ming zi lo? (What is your name?)
References
- ↑ ISO change request
- ↑ Tawang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tawang Monpa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Blench, Roger; Post, Mark (2011), (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (PDF)
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