Takpa (language)

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Takpa (Moinba)

Spoken in

India , Tibet
speaker 80,000
Linguistic
classification

Sino-Tibetan languages

Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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ISO 639 -2

sit (other Sino-Tibetan languages)

Takpa or Moinba is a Sino- Tibetan language spoken by about 80,000 speakers in India and Tibet . According to Thurgood 2003, Takpa (Moinba) forms a sub-unit of the Bodic subgroup of the Tibetan-Burman languages, one of the two primary branches of Sinotibetic, and is closely related to the Tibetan languages. Some researchers consider Takpa to be an East Tibetan language (e.g. van Driem 2001, there referred to as Dakpa ). In Ethnologue , Takpa is classified as a Kiranti language under the name Moinba ; according to the current state of research, this assignment is outdated.

Alternative names

There is a whole group of alternative names for Takpa , some of which make identification difficult or confuse it - especially with the Tshangla . These include Dakpa , Moinba , Cuona Moinba , North Monpa , Moinpa , Monba , Momba , Mompa , Menba , Menpa and others.

Geographical distribution and dialects

In India, Takpa or Moinba is spoken in Arunachal Pradesh in the districts of Tawang and Kameng by around 45,000 people, in Tibet by 35,000 at Yarlung Tsangpo ( Brahmaputra ) in the districts of Medog, Nyinchi and Cuona. The Takpa and Tshangla speakers together form the minority nationality of the Monba in China .

In Tibet, Takpa has the dialects North Cuona and South Cuona , in Arunachal Pradesh Matchopa Nagnoo ( But ), Sangla ( Dirang ), Kalaktang and Monkit ( Tawang ). The Chuk and Lish , also listed as dialects in Ethnologue, belong to another subgroup of Tibeto-Burmese.

Linguistic properties

Like almost all Tibetan Burmese languages, Takpa has the sentence order SOV (subject-object-verb). The noun is before his qualifying terms such as genitive attribute adjective attribute and number of adjectives. In contrast to many other Bodic languages, Takpa is a tonal language ; the northern dialects have two, the southern four different tones.

literature

  • Christopher I. Beckwith (Ed.): Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages . Brill, Leiden [u. a.] 2002, ISBN 90-04-12424-1 .
  • Paul K. Benedict: Sino-Tibetan. A Conspectus . University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08175-0 .
  • Scott DeLancey: Sino-Tibetan Languages . In: Bernard Comrie (Ed.): The World's Major Languages . Oxford University Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-19-520521-9 .
  • Austin Hale: Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages . Mouton, Berlin [a. a.] 1982, ISBN 90-279-3379-0 .
  • James A. Matisoff: Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman . University of California Press, Berkeley [et al. a.] 2003, ISBN 0-520-09843-9 .
  • Anju Saxena (Ed.): Himalayan Languages . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin [a. a.] 2004, ISBN 3-11-017841-9 .
  • Thurgood, Graham & Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages . Routledge, London [u. a.] 2003, ISBN 0-7007-1129-5 .
  • George van Driem: Languages ​​of the Himalayas . Brill, Leiden [u. a.] 2001, ISBN 90-04-10390-2 .