Lhokpu language

Lhokpu
Native toBhutan
Regionsouthwest Bhutan (Samtse, Chukha)
EthnicityLhop people
Native speakers
(2,500 cited 1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3lhp
Glottologlhok1238
ELPLhokpu
Lhokpu is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Lhokpu, also Lhobikha or Taba-Damtoe-Bikha, is one of the autochthonous languages of Bhutan spoken by the Lhop people. It is spoken in southwestern Bhutan along the border of Samtse and Chukha Districts. Van Driem (2003) leaves it unclassified as a separate branch within the Sino-Tibetan language family.[2]

  1. ^ Lhokpu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Driem, George van (2001). Languages of the Himalayas : an ethnolinguistic handbook of the greater Himalayan Region : containing an introduction to the symbiotic theory of language. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9004103900.

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