Tshangla language

Spoken in

Sino Tibetan languages

  • Tibetobirmanisch Bodisch Tshangla

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

Another 10,000 speakers ( Monba ) there are in the adjoining Tibet and northeast India. Tshangla forms a subunit of bodischen subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman languages ​​, one of the two primary branches of Sino Tibetan, and is closely related to the Tibetan languages.

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

Like almost all Tibeto-Burman languages ​​has also Tshangla the word order SOV ( subject-object - verb). The noun stands in front of his Bestimmern as genitive attribute, adjective attribute and number of adjectives. The personal pronouns distinguish singular, plural and dual. Tshangla is - like most other languages ​​bodischen - no tonal language.

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