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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