Social:Palpa language (Indo-Aryan)

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Short description: Purported language of Nepal
Palpa
RegionNepal
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3plp (retired)[1]
Glottologpalp1242[2]

Palpa was the name of a purported language or dialect of western Nepal, apparently associated with Palpa District. A version of the New Testament was published in this language by the Serampore Mission Press in 1827.[3]:18 In a 1916 volume of the Linguistic Survey of India, G.A. Grierson reproduced an extract of this text, with a one-page description of its grammar "more as a curiosity than as evidence of an existing form of speech", as it had been "impossible to check its correctness" due to the absence of other specimens.[3]:75–77 He considers the language of this text to be a form of Nepali, but with some similarities to the Kumaoni spoken to the west in India.[3]:18, 75

Palpa had an ISO 639-3 language code, plp, until it was retired in 2020 because of the continued absence of evidence for the existence of a separate language entity.[1]

It is not to be confused with the Palpa dialect of the Sino-Tibetan Western Magar language, also spoken in this area.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Request for Change to ISO 639-3 Language Code, Change Request Number: 2019-034 (Report). SIL International. 2019. https://iso639-3.sil.org/request/2019-034. 
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Palpa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/palp1242. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Template:Cite LSI