Gserpa ( Wylie: ''gser pa''; Chinese: 色尔坝; also ''Gserskad'') is an eastern

Tibetic language The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descended from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries).Tournadre, Nicolas. 2014. "The Tibetic languages and their classification." In ''Trans-Himalayan linguistics, historical and descriptiv ...

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

. It is spoken by a few hundred or thousand people in Sêrba (

Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dial ...

:གསེར་པ་; Wylie: gser pa; Tibetan pinyin: Sêrba;

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: 色尔坝;

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: Sè'ěrbà) District,

Sêrtar County Sêrtar County or Serthar County (; ) is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Qinghai province to the north. It is one of the 18 counties under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, covering s ...

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and is different from the Amdo Tibetan language, the dominant Tibetan language in the surrounding region.N. Tournadre (2005) "L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes." ''Lalies'', 2005, n°25, p. 7–5

/ref>Sun, Jackson Tianshin. 2006.
Special Linguistic Features of gSerpa Tibetan
." In Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 29, no. 1: 107-126.

Distribution

Gserpa is spoken in Shelgrub Township (旭日乡), Yangs’go Township (杨各乡), Sbomda’ Town (翁达镇), and Rgyashod Township (甲学乡) along the lower Gserchu River (色曲河) in eastern Gserthar County (色达县) in Dkarmdzes Prefecture (甘孜州).Sun, Jackson T.-S. 2021.
Gser-Rdo: A New Tibetic Language Across the Rngaba-Dkarmdzes Border
'. The closely related Khalung language, also known as Rdo, Rdoskad, or Khalong, is spoken to the east of the Gserpa area.

References

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