Dakpa language

Dakpa
Spoken in	Bhutan
Native speakers	1,000  (1993)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Tibeto-Kanauri Bodish East Bodish Dakpa
Writing system	Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dka

The Dakpa language (Dzongkha: 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, Phongmey, Yobinang, Dangpholeng and Lengkhar near Radhi.^[1][2] Van Driem (2001) describes Dakpa as the most divergent of Bhutan's East Bodish languages.^[3] SIL reports that Dakpa may be dialect of Brokpake, and that it been influenced by Dzalakha while Brokpake has not.^[2]

See also

• Languages of Bhutan

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 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. ^ ^{a b} "Dakpakha". Ethnologue Online. Dallas: SIL International. 2006. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=dka. Retrieved 2011-01-18. 
3. ^ van Driem, George (2001). Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill. 

External links

• Himalayan Languages Project