| Sherdukpen | |
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| Mey | |
| Ngnok | |
| Region | Assam,Arunachal Pradesh |
| Ethnicity | Sherdukpen people |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2019)[1] |
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| ISO 639-3 | sdp |
| Glottolog | sher1257 |
| ELP | Sherdukpen |
Sherdukpen (autonym:Mey) is a small language of India. It is one of theKho-Bwa languages.[2] There are two distinct varieties, Mey of Shergaon and Mey of Rupa. The nameSherdukpen comes from the words Shergaon andTukpen (the Monpa name for Rupa) (Blench & Post 2011:3). The language is known to speakers asMey nyuk.
Lieberherr & Bodt (2017)[3] list the following dialects of Sherdukpen.
Sherdukpen is spoken in Shergaon, southernWest Kameng District,Arunachal Pradesh (Dondrup 1988), located in the Tengapani river valley south of Bomdila.
Ethnologue lists Rupa (Kupa), Sheinthuk (Shergaon), Jigang (Jigaon), and Thungree villages, located south of Bomdi La Range and Tengapani river valleys inWest Kameng District,Arunachal Pradesh.
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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