The Takpa or Dakpa language (Tibetan: དག་པ་ཁ་, Wylie: dak pa kha), Dakpakha, known in India as Tawang Monpa,^[4] also known as Brami in Bhutan,^[5] is an East Bodish language spoken in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh, and in northern Trashigang District in eastern Bhutan, mainly in Kyaleng (Shongphu gewog), Phongmed Gewog, Dangpholeng and Lengkhar near Radi Gewog.^[6][7] Van Driem (2001) describes Takpa as the most divergent of Bhutan's East Bodish languages,^[8] though it shares many similarities with Bumthang. SIL reports that Takpa may be a dialect of the Brokpa language and that it been influenced by the Dzala language whereas Brokpa has not.^[7]

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Takpa
Tawang Monpa
དག་པ་ཁ་, dakpakha
Region	India; Bhutan; Lhoka, Tibet
Ethnicity	Takpa
Native speakers	9,100 in India (2006)[1] 2,000 in Bhutan (2011);[2] 1,300 in China (2000 census)[3]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman? Tibeto-Kanauri? Bodish East Bodish Dakpa–Dzala Takpa
Writing system	Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: dka – Dakpa twm – Tawang Monpa tkk – Takpa
Glottolog	dakp1242
ELP	Dakpa Takpa
Takpa is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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Takpa is mutually unintelligible with Monpa of Zemithang and Monpa of Mago-Thingbu.^[9] Monpa of Zemithang is another East Bodish language, and is documented in Abraham, et al. (2018).^[10]

Wangchu (2002) reports that Tawang Monpa is spoken in Lhou, Seru, Lemberdung, and Changprong villages, Tawang District, Arunachal Pradesh.

These tables represent the phonemes of the variety of Takpa spoken in China, in Tsona County. ^[11]

• Languages of Bhutan