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	Monpa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family, but it is significantly different from the Eastern Tibetan dialect and is written with the Tibetan script.
		The Monpa are mainly followers of Tibetan Buddhism of the Gelugpa sect, although several members of the Bhut Monpa are followers of Bön and Animism.
		The sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, is a Monpa by ethnicity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monpa (1041 words)

	Monpa - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Monpa (Chinese: 门巴族, ménbàzú,Tibetan: ?པ) are an ethnic group in thePeople's Republic of China, with apopulation of 50,000, centered in the districts of Tawang and West Kameng.
		Their language belongs to the Tibeto-Burmanfamily, but it is significantly different from the Eastern Tibetandialect and is written with the Tibetan script.
		The Monpa are mainly followers of TibetanBuddhism of the Gelugpa sect, although several members of the BhutMonpa are followers of Bönand Animism.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Monpa (921 words)

	Monpa - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Monpa are an ethnic group in the People's Republic of China, with a population of 50,000, centered in the districts of Tawang and West Kameng.
		Of the 45,000 who Monpas of live in Arunachal Pradesh, about 20,000 of them live in Tawang district, where they constitute about 97% of the district's population, and alomst all of the remainder can be found in the West Kameng district, where they form about 77% of the district's population.
		The Bhut Monpa, who follow the hunter-gather lifestyle, whose believed that the main totem and clan element is the spirit of the tiger, and it is this animal, in fact, that torments the initiate’s sleep.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Monpa (881 words)

	Issues - Education
		It is significant to note that Indio-Aryan languages (19) are spoken by 74% of the Indian population, the Dravidian languages (16) by 24% of the population, and the Tibeto Burman languages (48) together with Austro-Asiatic languages (13) are spoken by only 2% of the population.
		These major languages together with Sanskrit were included in the Eighth schedule of the Constitution of India as languages to be recognised for use in administration, education, legislation, media and the judiciary.
		Language status and language expectation as well as language use determine the overall position of a language in the hierarchy of languages in a multi-lingual country.
	www.indianngos.com /issue/education/resources/articles54.htm (2432 words)

	RAOnline Bhutan: A glimpse at the Monpa community
		The Monpas have been pushed to the hinter-land of the remote Black Mountain forests today but they were here before the founders of modern Bhutan built dzongs in the valleys of Paro, Bumthang and Thimphu, says a study on the Monpa community, conducted by two Sherubtse College graduates under the research grant of the UNFPA.
		Monpas inhabit Mangdue and Wangdue valleys in central Bhutan and are often considered the first inhabitants of Bhutan.
		Monpas occupy Jangbi, Wangling and Phumzur villages under Lhangthel gewog in Trongsa Dzongkhag and Rukha village (locally known as Oalay and hence Oalaps) in Adha gewog in Wangdi Dzongkhag.
	mypage.bluewindow.ch /raonline/pages/story/bt/btbg_monpa01.html (1152 words)

	Tibetan language - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Tibetan language is typically classified as member of the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan linguistic family.
		Farther east the Monpa and Takpa of Tawang in the eastern Assam Himalayas appears to form a transition between the central and the Sifan of dialects on the Chinese frontier, which includes the Minyak, Sungpan, Lifan and Tochu dialects.
		The chief differences between the classical language of the Tibetan translators of the 9th century and the present day vernacular are in vocabulary, phraseology and grammatical structure.
	www.free-definition.com /Tibetan-language.html (1394 words)

	Language in India
		Language shift has been studied from various perspectives: sociological and demographic at the macro level, ethnographic, social psychological, and so on, at the micro level, each approach making use of specific research methods and techniques which are not contradictory but complementary.
		Language loss is rapid usually due either to severe political repression and genocide, where speakers out of self defence stop speaking the language, or to rapid population collapse due to destruction of culture, epidemics, etc (Dressler, 1981; Hill 1983).
		Language shift and language death adversely affect the state of societal bilingualism in the world and should be better understood if languages and cultures are to be preserved.
	www.languageinindia.com /july2005/morphologynortheast2.html (6234 words)

	Kamat's Potpourri: The Languages of India
		Kannada -- A prominent Dravidian language spoken in the province of Karnataka.
		Kutchi -- A language spoken in the Kutch region of Gujarat.
		Tulu -- A spoken language prominently spoken in Dakshina Kannada and Udupidistricts on the west-coast.
	www.kamat.com /indica/diversity/languages.htm (905 words)

	Tibetan language - Chinese Language - Chinese
		By means of agglutination, the Tibetan language has developed a considerable grammatical system of word suffixes and is no longer strictly analytic languageisolating in structure.
		The conditions which approximate most closely to our present, perfect, future and imperative are marked either by aspiration (phonetics)aspiration of the initial, or by one of the five prefix consonants according to the rules of euphony.
		http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/xml/show.php?xml=/collections/langling/languages/index.xml&l=9 Languages on the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas - Nicolas Tournadre
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Tibetan_language (1544 words)

	Lhoba - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Many more live in south of theTibetan border in Dibang Valleyin Arunachal Pradesh, where they engage in traditionalagriculture and hunting.
		Until the Chineseoccupation of Tibet, the Lhoba had no written language.
		With the excavation of the Bhismakanagar, a stronghold of the Chutiya caste, which existed up to the sixteenth century, shedlight to their traditional history.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Lhoba (762 words)

	Kuensel Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Most of the young native speakers are not aware of this native term and identify themselves as Sharchokpa ‘easterners’ and the language they speak as Sharchokpa-lo ‘language of the easterners’.
		Another language called Spitian ‘the dialect of Spiti’ (locally pronounced as Piti), which is spoken in some parts of district Lahul and Spiti in the same state of Himachal Pradesh, is equally similar to Dzongkha and Tshangla like Tod.
		So, it may be said that these languages are a mixture of Dzongkha and Tshangla, which indicate that Dzongkha and Tshangla belong to the same sub-group or language family.
	kuenselonline.com /article.php?sid=3051&PHPSESSID=492b4f287f52d461af... (823 words)

	Buyei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Buyi live in semi-tropical, high-altitude forests of Guizhou province, as well as in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, and speak a Tai language related to Zhuang language.
		The Buyei speak the Buyei language which is very close to the Zhuang language.
		The Buyei language has its own written form which was created by linguists in the 1950s based on the Latin alphabet and with spelling conventions similar for the Pinyin system that had been devised to romanise Chinese.
	www.wilmingtonnc.biz /search/Buyei.html (246 words)

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		Although they are ethnically related to the Monpa and the Lishipa, whether they are a Monpa sub-group or not is not sure, but it seems more likely that they are a separate tribe.
		Like the Monpa, they are also adherents of Lamaism.
		However, like the Lishipa, they are considered just as inferior to the Monpa as both groups are descended from the early waves of immigrants from Tibet via Bhutan or from Tibet.
	www.4lawschool.com /index.php?title=Chugpa (119 words)

	Monpa - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Monpa are an ethnic group in the People's Republic of China, with a population of 45,000, centered in the districts of Tawang and West Kaneng.
		Another 10,000 of them can be found in the district of Cuona in Tibet, where they are known as Menba.
		The influence of Buddhist art is very strong o the Monpa.
	www.free-definition.com /Menba.html (877 words)

	GPD for the PDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A people group of more than 30,000, called the Monpa, living among the Tibetan people, have their first three believers.
		These lovely Monpas have been in a spiritual flout since before the first century BC when Buddhism came to their people.
		In the fields where grain is grown by Monpa farmers, where more than 70 percent of the grain produced goes to the production of wine or liquor, three converts now dedicate their labor to their Heavenly Father.
	www.global-prayer-digest.org /pda/daily/2003-3-13.html (337 words)

	Arunachal Pradesh - China-related Topics A-D - China-Related Topics
		The tribal Monpa and Sherdukpen do keep historical records of the existence of local chiefdoms in the northwest as well.
		Recent excavations of ruins of Hindu temples such as the 14th Malinithan at the foot of the Siang hills in West Siang shed new light to the ancient history of Arunachal Pradesh.
		A new district, Anjaw, is formed in 2004, with its capital based at Hawai.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Arunachal_Pradesh (1207 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:TSJ
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		Their speech is nearly identical to that of eastern Bhutan, except for the loss of initial voicing and tonogenesis in Tibet.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=TSJ (169 words)

	Monpa language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Monpa language is spoken in Arunachal Pradesh and Tibet.
		The language uses the Tibetan script to represent its words and phonetics.
		This page was last modified 14:13, 17 March 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monpa_language (79 words)

	MONPA: Tawang language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Get further details about this language from The Ethnologue and The Rosetta Project.
		See also the alphabetical language list and full country list.
		Another reference on countries, languages and people groups is Peoplegroups.org.
	www.gospelrecordings.com /show_language.php/14200 (70 words)

	C I I L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Training for Tribal Language Officers of the Tribal Research Departments in Northeast States [Kedutso Kapfo].
		Field Studies on Tagin language in Daporijo district [Y.Sridhar Reddy; September 15 to November 15, 2003].
		Workshop on WordNet in Dravidian Languages in collaboration with AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai [June 2 and 3, 2003].
	www.ciil.org /academicprograms/pg5.html (562 words)

	Monpa Details, Meaning Monpa Article and Explanation Guide
		Monpa Details, Meaning Monpa Article and Explanation Guide
		The Monpa are an ethnic group in the People's Republic of China, with a population of 50,000, centered in the districts of Tawang and West Kaneng.
		A small number of them may be found in the district of East Kameng and Bhutan.
	www.e-paranoids.com /m/mo/monpa.html (900 words)

	Indian Union
		Principal Languages: Monpa, Miji, Aka, Sherdukpen, Bangni, Nisni, Apatani, Tagin, Hill Miri, Adi, Gallong, Digaru-Mishmi, Idu-Mishmi, Miju-Mishmi, Nocte, Khampti, Tangsa and Wancho
		Principal Languages: Kashmiri, Urdu, Dogri, Pahari, Balti, Gujri, Ladakhi, Punjabi, and Dadri
		Principal Languages: Hindi, Bengali, Nicobarese, Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu
	www.spindlepub.com /india/union.htm (773 words)

	Language in India
		Jones chose the language of Sohra (Cherrapunji) which proved to be a good choice later on.
		LANGUAGE ATTITUDE OF THE ORIYA MIGRANT POPULATION IN KOLKATA
		LANGUAGE POLICY OF THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS DURING THE PRE-PARTITION PERIOD 1939-1946
	www.languageinindia.com /july2005/morphologynortheast1.html (6454 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:mob
		Matchopa Nagnoo (But), Chug, Sangla (Dirang), Kalaktang (Southern Monpa), Kishpignag (Lish), Monkit (Northern Monpa, Tawang).
		The Lish, But, and Chug dialects differ from the others, resembling Aka, Miji, and Sherdukpen languages (Singh).
		Chowdhury says Lish and Chug dialects are "markedly different and distinct from Monpa." Identical or closely related to Cuona Monpa in Tibet and Brokpa and Brami of Bhutan (Andvik 2002).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=mob (221 words)

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	www.lmp.ucla.edu /lmd/cals.htm (77 words)

	Tibetan language Details, Meaning Tibetan language Article and Explanation Guide
		Tibetan language Details, Meaning Tibetan language Article and Explanation Guide
		Tibetan language Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
		Page Contains Information, Facts Details or Explanation Guide About Tibetan language
	www.e-paranoids.com /t/ti/tibetan_language.html (1394 words)

	MavicaNET - Monpa (Sangtengpa) Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		Population of Language Speakers in the World: 277,800.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/hun/30729.html?sortby=5 (50 words)

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