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{{Short description|Purported language of Nepal}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Palpa
|region=Nepal
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=[[Social:Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
|fam3=[[Social:Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
|fam4=Northern
|fam5=Eastern Pahari
|fam6=[[Social:Nepali language|Nepali]]
|iso3=plp
|iso3comment=(retired)<ref name=iso/>
|glotto=palp1242
|glottorefname=Palpa
}}
'''Palpa''' was the name of a purported language or dialect of western Nepal, apparently associated with Palpa District.<!-- but see Grierson, p. 18 "Pālpā is a town in Nepal about a hundred miles west of Kāṭhmāṇḍū"--> A version of the [[Religion:New Testament|New Testament]] was published in this language by the Serampore Mission Press in 1827.<ref name=LSI>{{Cite LSI|9|4}}</ref>{{rp|18}} In a 1916 volume of the [[Social:Linguistic Survey of India|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.<ref name=LSI/>{{rp|75–77}} He considers the language of this text to be a form of [[Social:Nepali language|Nepali]], but with some similarities to the Kumaoni spoken to the west in India.<ref name=LSI/>{{rp|18, 75}}

Palpa had an [[Social:ISO 639-3|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.<ref name=iso>{{Cite report|title  = Request for Change to ISO 639-3 Language Code, Change Request Number: 2019-034| year = 2019| url = https://iso639-3.sil.org/request/2019-034| publisher = SIL International}}</ref>

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

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