Dakpa language
| Dakpa | |
|---|---|
| Region | Bhutan |
Native speakers | 2,000 (2011)[1] |
| Tibetan alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
dka |
| Glottolog |
dakp1242[2] |
The Dakpa language (Dzongkha: Tibetan: དཀ་པ་ཁ་, Wylie: dak pa kha , also called "Dakpakha" and "D°akpakha") is an East Bodish language spoken by about 1,000 people in northern Trashigang District in eastern Bhutan, mainly in Chaleng, Phongmed Gewog, Yobinang, Dangpholeng and Lengkhar near Radi Gewog.[3][4] Van Driem (2001) describes Dakpa as the most divergent of Bhutan's East Bodish languages.[5] SIL reports that Dakpa may be a dialect of the Brokpa language and that it been influenced by the Dzala language whereas Brokpa has not.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Dakpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dakpakha". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ van Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy in Bhutan" (PDF). London: SOAS. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- 1 2 "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.
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