Chochangachakha language explained

Chocha Ngacha
Also Known As:	Tsamang
Region:	Bhutan
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Speakers:	20,000
Date:	1993
Fam2:	Tibeto-Kanauri ?
Fam3:	Bodish
Fam4:	Tibetic
Fam5:	Dzongkha–Lhokä
Script:	Tibetan alphabet
Iso3:	cgk
Glotto:	choc1275
Glottorefname:	Chocangacakha

The Chocha Ngacha language or Chochangachakha (Dzongkha: ཁྱོད་ཅ་ང་ཅ་ཁ་ "'You' and 'I' language";^[1] also called "Kursmad-kha", "Maphekha", "rTsamangpa'i kha", and "Tsagkaglingpa'i kha") or Tsamang is a Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 20,000 people in the Kurichu Valley of Lhuntse and Mongar Districts in eastern Bhutan.^{[2] [3]}

Chocha Ngacha and Dzongkha

Chocha Ngacha is a "sister language" to Dzongkha. Under pressure to assimilate into the mainstream Dzongkha-speaking Ngalop culture, this proximity has resulted in significant loss of its particularly distinctive Kurichu linguistic substrate.^{[2] [4]} Nicholas Tournadre writes:

See also

• Dzongkha
• Languages of Bhutan
• Language shift

Notes and References

1. Book: Driem. George van. Dzongkha = rdoṅ-kha. 1998. Research School, CNWS. Leiden. 978-9057890024. 13.
2. Web site: Language Policy in Bhutan . PDF . van Driem . George L. . George van Driem . . . 1993 . 2011-01-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101101084255/http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo%3A3003 . 2010-11-01 . dead .
3. Web site: Chocangacakha . Ethnologue Online . . . 2006 . 2011-01-18.
4. Book: van Driem, George . Language diversity endangered . 181 . Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, Mouton Reader . George van Driem . 312 . Matthias Brenzinger . Walter de Gruyter . 2007 . 978-3-11-017050-4 .