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Sherdukpen language

Sherdukpen (autonym: Mey) is a small language of India. It is one of the Kho-Bwa languages.[2] There are two distinct varieties, Mey of Shergaon and Mey of Rupa. The name Sherdukpen comes from the words Shergaon and Tukpen (the Monpa name for Rupa) (Blench & Post 2011:3). The language is known to speakers as Mey nyuk.

Sherdukpen
Mey
Ngnok
RegionAssam, Arunachal Pradesh
EthnicitySherdukpen people
Native speakers
5,000 (2019)[1]
Possibly Sino-Tibetan
Dialects
  • Shergaon
  • Rupa
Language codes
ISO 639-3sdp
Glottologsher1257
ELPSherdukpen

Dialects edit

Lieberherr & Bodt (2017)[3] list the following dialects of Sherdukpen.

  • Rupa: spoken in Rupa village and two other main villages, as well as nearby hamlets. Likely around 3,000 speakers.
  • Shergaon: spoken in Shergaon village. Likely around 1,500 speakers.

Locations edit

Sherdukpen is spoken in Shergaon, southern West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh (Dondrup 1988), located in the Tengapani river valley south of Bomdila.

Ethnologue lists Rupa (Kupa), Sheinthuk (Shergaon), Jigang (Jigaon), and Thungree villages, located south of Bomdi La Range and Tengapani river valleys in West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh.

References edit

  1. ^ Sherdukpen at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)  
  2. ^ Post, Mark W. and Roger Blench (2011). "Siangic: A new language phylum in North East India", 6th International Conference of the North East India Linguistics Society, Tezpur University, Assam, India, Jan 31 – Feb 2
  3. ^ Lieberherr, Ismael; Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus. 2017. Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary. In Himalayan Linguistics, 16(2).
  • Dondrup, Rinchin. 1988. A handbook on Sherdukpen language. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Arunachal Pradesh Government.


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