Naapa language

Naaba
Naapa
Region Nepal
Native speakers
770 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nao
Glottolog naab1241[2]

Naapa (Naaba), or Nawa Sherpa, is a Tibetic language of Nepal (and one village in China) closely related to Dzongkha of Bhutan. Speakers live among Lhomi speakers.

References

  1. ↑ Naaba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Naaba". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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