Tshangla (language)

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Tshangla

Spoken in

Bhutan
speaker 150,000
Linguistic
classification

Sino-Tibetan languages

Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

sit

ISO 639-3

tsj

Tshangla is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by 140,000 speakers in Bhutan , mainly in the Tashigang and Dungsam districts.

There are another 10,000 speakers ( Monba ) in neighboring Tibet and northeast India. Tshangla forms a subunit 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.

Alternative names are Tsangla , Sangla , Shachopka , Cangluo Monpa , Motuo Monpa or Monba .

Like almost all Tibetan Burmese languages, Tshangla also has the sentence position SOV (subject-object-verb). The noun stands in front of its determiners like genitive attribute, adjective attribute and number adjectives. The personal pronouns differentiate between singular, plural and dual. Tshangla is - like most other Bodic languages ​​- not a tonal language .

literature

Specifically Tshangla

  • Andvik, Erik: Tshangla. In Thurgood 2003.

Tibeto Burmese

  • 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 .