Takpa language

{{Infobox language

| name = Takpa

| altname = Tawang Monpa

| nativename = དག་པ་ཁ་, dakpakha

| region = India; Bhutan; Lhoka, Tibet

| image = 250px

| ethnicity = Takpa

| speakers = {{sigfig|9130|2}} in India

| date = 2006

| ref = [http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2006-034_twm.pdf ISO change request]

| speakers2 = 2,000 in Bhutan (2011);{{e18|dka|Dakpa}} 1,300 in China (2000 census){{e18|twm|Tawang}}

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Tibeto-Burman?

| fam3 = Tibeto-Kanauri?

| fam4 = Bodish

| fam5 = East Bodish

| fam6 = Dakpa–Dzala

| script = Tibetan script

| lc1 = dka

| ld1 = Dakpa

| lc2 = twm

| ld2 = Tawang Monpa

| lc3 = tkk

| ld3 = Takpa

| glotto = dakp1242

| glottorefname = Dakpakha

| map2 = Lang Status 80-VU.svg

| mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Takpa is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

}}

The Takpa or Dakpa language ({{bo|t=དག་པ་ཁ་|w=dak pa kha}}), Dakpakha, known in India as Tawang Monpa,Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices also known as Brami in Bhutan,{{Cite journal |last=Tshering, Karma;van Driem, George |date=2019 |title=The Grammar of Dzongkha |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1h4211k0 |journal=Himalayan Linguistics Journal |volume=7}} is an East Bodish language spoken in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh, and in northern Trashigang District in eastern Bhutan, mainly in Kyaleng (Shongphu gewog), Phongmed Gewog, Dangpholeng and Lengkhar near Radi Gewog.{{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-date=2010-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101084255/http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo%3A3003 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=dka |title=Dakpakha |work=Ethnologue Online |publisher=SIL International |location=Dallas |year=2006 |access-date=2011-01-18}} Van Driem (2001) describes Takpa as the most divergent of Bhutan's East Bodish languages,{{cite book|first=George |last=van Driem |author-link=George van Driem |year=2001 |title=Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region |publisher=Brill Publishers}} though it shares many similarities with Bumthang. SIL reports that Takpa may be a dialect of the Brokpa language and that it been influenced by the Dzala language whereas Brokpa has not.

Takpa is mutually unintelligible with Monpa of Zemithang and Monpa of Mago-Thingbu.{{citation | first1 = Roger | last1 = Blench | first2 = Mark | last2 = Post | title = (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence | url = http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/South%20Asia/NEI/General/Lingres/Declassifying%20Arunachal.pdf | year = 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130526230734/http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/South%20Asia/NEI/General/Lingres/Declassifying%20Arunachal.pdf | archive-date = 2013-05-26 }} Monpa of Zemithang is another East Bodish language, and is documented in Abraham, et al. (2018).Abraham, Binny, Kara Sako, Elina Kinny, Isapdaile Zeliang. 2018. [https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/75982 Sociolinguistic Research among Selected Groups in Western Arunachal Pradesh: Highlighting Monpa]. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2018-009.

Wangchu (2002) reports that Tawang Monpa is spoken in Lhou, Seru, Lemberdung, and Changprong villages, Tawang District, Arunachal Pradesh.

== Phonology ==

These tables represent the phonemes of the variety of Takpa spoken in China, in Tsona County.Huang, 1992, p. 634.