- Chocangaca language
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Chocangacakha Spoken in Bhutan Native speakers 20,000 (1993)[1] Language family Sino-Tibetan- (Tibeto-Burman)
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodish
- Tibetan
- Central Tibetan
- Southern
- Chocangacakha
- Southern
- Central Tibetan
- Tibetan
- Bodish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
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]
See also
- Dzongkha
- Languages of Bhutan
- Language shift
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Chocangacakha". Ethnologue Online. Dallas: SIL International. 2006. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cgk. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ 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.
Languages of Bhutan Tibeto-Burman BodishTibetanTshangla (Sharchop)Indo-Aryan Categories:- Languages of Bhutan
- South Bodish languages
- Sino-Tibetan language stubs
- Bhutan stubs
- (Tibeto-Burman)
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