Lhokpu

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Number of speakers

SyntaxTerror, Mon, 2022-07-04 13:18
Regarding: 
Population
ISO 639-3: 
lhp

According to van Driem (2007), the total number of speakers in Bhutan "comprises approximately 1,340 speakers in the villages of Sanglung, Sataka and Loto Kucu and Lotok. The eastern community comprises approximately 1,270
speakers in Tåba, Dramte and several associated hamlets near Jenchu, upstream from the town of Phüntsho'ling on the Indo-Bhutan border.", totalling 2610 people.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find the primary source for this claim.

van Driem, George, in Moseley Christopher (ed.), Encyclopedia of the World’s Endangered Languages, Routledge, 2007, pp. 283-347 (ISBN 9780700711970, 070071197X)

read on Google Books (2008 edition): https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Encyclopedia_of_the_World_s_Endangered_L/p-7ON7Rvx_AC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&pg=PT422&printsec=frontcover&dq=lhokpu




Editorial Action

We will update the L1 speaker population and the region, also adding the language contact with Nepali [npi], for Lhokpu [lhp] in Bhutan, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.

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