Tukpa language

Tukpa
Nesang
Native to	India
Region	Himachal Pradesh
Native speakers	610 (2000)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri (?) Bodish Tibetic Lahuli–Spiti Tukpa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tpq
Glottolog	tukp1239

Tukpa, also known as Nesang, is a Tibetic language spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, India. It forms a closely knit group with other Lahuli–Spiti languages, and is fairly close to Standard Tibetan.[2]

References

1. Tukpa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Nicolas Tournadre. 2014. The Tibetic languages and their classification. In Nathan W. Hill and Thomas Owen-Smith (eds.), Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area, 105–129. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.