Tukpa language
Tukpa, also known as Nesang, is a Tibetic language spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, India. It forms a closely knit group with other Lahuli–Spiti languages, and is fairly close to Standard Tibetan.[3]
| Tukpa | |
|---|---|
| Nesang | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Himachal Pradesh |
Native speakers | 610 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tpq |
| Glottolog | tukp1239[2] |
References
- Tukpa at Ethnologue (23nd ed., 2020)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tukpa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Nicolas Tournadre. 2014. The Tibetic languages and their classification. In Nathan W. Hill and Thomas Owen-Smith (eds.), Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area, 105–129. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
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