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Sherdukpen language

Sherdukpen
Mey
Ngnok
Region Assam, Arunachal Pradesh
Ethnicity Sherdukpen people
Native speakers
3,100 (2001)
Possibly Sino-Tibetan
Dialects
  • Shergaon
  • Rupa
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog sher1257

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.

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.



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