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Tukpa language

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Tukpa
Nesang
Native toIndia
RegionHimachal Pradesh
Native speakers
610 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3tpq
Glottologtukp1239

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.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Tukpa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ 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.