Chali language

{{Short description|Bodish language spoken in Bhutan}}

{{for|the Chali (Tri) dialect of Laos|Bru language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Chali

|nativename={{lang|tgf|ཚ་ལི་ཁ}}, {{tlit|tgf|Tsha-li-kha}}

|states= Bhutan

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|speakers=1,500

|date=2011

|ref=e18

|fam2=Tibeto-Burman

|fam3=Tibeto-Kanauri (?)

|fam4=Bodish

|fam5=East Bodish

|script=Tibetan script

|iso3=tgf

|glotto=chal1267

|glottorefname=Chalikha

}}

Chali ({{langx|dz|ཚ་ལི་ཁ}}་; Wylie: {{tlit|dz|Tsha-li-kha}}; also called Chalikha, Chalipkha, Tshali, and Tshalingpa) is an East Bodish language spoken by about 1,398 people in Wangmakhar, Gorsum and Tormazhong villages in Mongar District in eastern Bhutan, mainly around Chhali Gewog on east bank of Kuri Chhu River.{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=dka |title=Chalikha |work=Ethnologue Online |publisher=SIL International |location=Dallas |year=2006 |access-date=2011-01-18}}{{cite web |url=http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:3003 |format=PDF |last=van Driem |first=George L. |author-link=George van Driem |title=Language Policy in Bhutan |publisher=SOAS |location=London |year=1993 |access-date=2011-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101084255/http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo%3A3003 |archive-date=2010-11-01 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite book |last=Royal Government of Bhutan |title=2017 Population and Housing Census of Bhutan |publisher=Royal Government of Bhutan |year=2017}} Chalikha is related to Bumthangkha and Kurtöpkha.