Tshangla (language)
Tshangla | ||
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Spoken in |
Bhutan | |
speaker | 150,000 | |
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ISO 639 -1 |
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ISO 639 -2 |
sit |
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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 .