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Revision as of 18:20, 28 May 2009
| Tsangla | |
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| Region | Bhutan |
Native speakers | 143,000 (1993) |
Sino-Tibetan
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| ISO 639-3 | tsj |
Tshangla or Sharchopkh is the language of the Sharchops, the plurality ethnicity of Bhutan and the principal pre-Tibetan (pre-Dzongkha) peoples of that country.
It appears to form an independent branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages.
References
- George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill. pp. 915 ff.
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