| Takpa | |
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| Tawang Monpa | |
| དག་པ་ཁ་,dakpakha | |
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| Region | India;Bhutan;Lhoka,Tibet |
| Ethnicity | Takpa |
Native speakers | 9,100 in India (2006)[1] 2,000 in Bhutan (2011);[2] 1,300 in China (2000 census)[3] |
| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:dka – Dakpatwm – Tawang Monpatkk – Takpa (deprecated) |
| Glottolog | dakp1242 |
| ELP | |
 Takpa is classified as Vulnerable by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
TheTakpa orDakpa language (Tibetan:དག་པ་ཁ་,Wylie:dak pa kha),Dakpakha, known in India asTawang Monpa,[4] also known as Brami in Bhutan,[5] is anEast Bodish language spoken in the Tawang district ofArunachal Pradesh, and in northernTrashigang District in easternBhutan, mainly in Kyaleng (Shongphu gewog),Phongmed Gewog, Dangpholeng and Lengkhar nearRadi Gewog.[6][7]Van Driem (2001) describes Takpa as the most divergent of Bhutan'sEast Bodish languages,[8] though it shares many similarities withBumthang.SIL reports that Takpa may be a dialect of theBrokpa language and that it been influenced by theDzala language whereas Brokpa has not.[7]
Takpa ismutually unintelligible with Monpa ofZemithang and Monpa ofMago-Thingbu.[9] Monpa of Zemithang is anotherEast Bodish language, and is documented in Abraham, et al. (2018).[10]
Wangchu (2002) reports thatTawang Monpa is spoken in Lhou, Seru, Lemberdung, and Changprong villages,Tawang District,Arunachal Pradesh.
These tables represent the phonemes of the variety of Takpa spoken in China, inTsona County.[11]
| Front | Central | Back | |
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| High | iiiː[iː] yyyː[yː] | uuuː[uː] | |
| Mid | e[e]eː[eː] | ʌʌʌː[ʌː] | oooː[oː] |
| Low | ɛ[ɛ]ɛːɛː | aaaː[aː] | ɔɔɔː[ɔː] |
Monba is atonal language, with four contour tones:55,53,35, and31.[11]
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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