Ethnicity Sherdukpen people Dialects Shergaon
Rupa | Native speakers 3,100 (2001) ISO 639-3 sdp | |
Region Assam, Arunachal Pradesh Language family Possibly Sino-Tibetan
Kho-Bwa
Mey–Sartang
Sherdukpen | ||
Sherdukpen (autonym: Mey) is a small language of India. It is one of the Kho-Bwa languages. 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.
Locations
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), Shargang (Shergaon), Jigang (Jigaon), and Thungrao villages, located south of Bomdi La Range and Tengapani river valleys in West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh.
References
Sherdukpen language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA