Sherdukpen language

Sherdukpen
Sherdukpen
Mey
Ngnok
Region	Assam,Arunachal Pradesh
Ethnicity	Sherdukpen people
Native speakers	5,000 (2019)
Language family	PossiblySino-Tibetan Kho-Bwa Mey–Sartang Sherdukpen; ; ;
Dialects	Shergaon; Tukpen (Rupa);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sdp
Glottolog	sher1257
ELP	Sherdukpen

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

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]

Sherdukpenis spoken in Shergaon, southernWest Kameng District,Arunachal Pradesh(Dondrup 1988), located in the Tengapani river valley south of Bomdila.

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

References[edit]

^SherdukpenatEthnologue(25th ed., 2022)
^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
^Lieberherr, Ismael; Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus. 2017.Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary.InHimalayan Linguistics,16(2).

Dondrup, Rinchin. 1988.A handbook on Sherdukpen language.Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Arunachal Pradesh Government.

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[e25-1] SherdukpenatEthnologue(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

[Lieberherr-Bodt-3] Lieberherr, Ismael; Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus. 2017.Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary.InHimalayan Linguistics,16(2).

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