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{{Short description|Bodish language spoken in Tibet and Bhutan}}
{{Expand French|Monba (langue)|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Takpa
| altname = Tawang Monpa
| nativename = དག་པ་ཁ་, ''dakpakha''
| region = [[India]]; [[Bhutan]]; [[Lhoka Prefecture|Lhoka]], [[Tibet Autonomous Region|Tibet]]
| image = [[File:Takpa(Tawang Monpa).png|250px]]
| ethnicity = [[Takpa people|Takpa]]
| speakers = {{sigfig|9130|2}} in India
| date = 2006
| ref = <ref>[http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2006-034_twm.pdf ISO change request]</ref>
| speakers2 = 2,000 in Bhutan (2011);<ref>{{e18|dka|Dakpa}}</ref> 1,300 in China (2000 census)<ref>{{e18|twm|Tawang}}</ref>
| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan
| fam2 = [[Tibeto-Kanauri languages|Tibeto-Kanauri]] ?
| fam3 = [[Bodish languages|Bodish]]
| fam4 = [[East Bodish languages|East Bodish]]
| script = [[Tibetan script]]
| lc1 = dka
| ld1 = Dakpa
| lc2 = twm
| ld2 = Tawang Monpa
| glotto = dakp1242
| glottorefname = Dakpakha
}}

The '''Takpa''' or '''Dakpa language''' ({{bo|t=དག་པ་ཁ་|w=dak pa kha}}), ''Dakpakha'', known in India as '''Tawang Monpa''',<ref>Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices</ref> also known as Brami in Bhutan,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tshering, Karma;van Driem, George |date=2019 |title=The Grammar of Dzongkha |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1h4211k0 |journal=Himalayan Linguistics Journal |volume=7}}</ref> is an [[East Bodish languages|East Bodish language]] spoken in the Tawang district of [[Arunachal Pradesh]], claimed by Tibet as a part of [[Lhoka Prefecture|Lho-kha Sa-khul]], and in northern [[Trashigang District]] in eastern [[Bhutan]], mainly in Kyaleng (Shongphu gewog), [[Phongmed Gewog]], Dangpholeng and Lengkhar near [[Radi Gewog]].<ref name=vanDriem93>{{cite web|url=http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:3003 |format=PDF |last=van Driem |first=George L. |author-link=George van Driem |title=Language Policy in Bhutan |publisher=[[School of Oriental and African Studies|SOAS]] |location=[[London]] |year=1993 |access-date=2011-01-18}}</ref><ref name=SIL1>{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=dka |title=Dakpakha |work=[[Ethnologue]] Online |publisher=[[SIL International]] |location=[[Dallas]] |year=2006 |access-date=2011-01-18}}</ref> [[George van Driem|Van Driem]] (2001) describes Takpa as the most divergent of Bhutan's [[East Bodish languages]],<ref name=vanDriem01>{{cite book|first=George |last=van Driem |author-link=George van Driem |year=2001 |title=Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]}}</ref> though it shares many similarities with [[Bumthang language|Bumthang]]. [[SIL International|SIL]] reports that Takpa may be a dialect of the [[Brokpa language]] and that it been influenced by the [[Dzala language]] whereas Brokpa has not.<ref name=SIL1/>

Takpa is [[Mutual intelligibility|mutually unintelligible]] with Monpa of [[Zemithang]] and Monpa of [[Mago, Tawang|Mago]]-[[Thingbu]].<ref name="Blench2011">{{citation | first1 = Roger | last1 = Blench | first2 = Mark | last2 = Post | title = (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence | url = http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/South%20Asia/NEI/General/Lingres/Declassifying%20Arunachal.pdf | year = 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130526230734/http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/South%20Asia/NEI/General/Lingres/Declassifying%20Arunachal.pdf | archive-date = 2013-05-26 }}</ref> Monpa of Zemithang is another [[East Bodish languages|East Bodish]] language, and is documented in Abraham, et al. (2018).<ref>Abraham, Binny, Kara Sako, Elina Kinny, Isapdaile Zeliang. 2018. ''[https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/75982 Sociolinguistic Research among Selected Groups in Western Arunachal Pradesh: Highlighting Monpa]''. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2018-009.</ref>

Wangchu (2002) reports that [[Monpa people|Tawang Monpa]] is spoken in Lhou, Seru, Lemberdung, and Changprong villages, [[Tawang district|Tawang District]], [[Arunachal Pradesh]].

==See also==
*[[Languages of Bhutan]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/ Himalayan Languages Project]

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Takpa language - Revision history

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