Sherdukpen (autonym: Mey) is a small language of India. It is one of the

Kho-Bwa languages The Kho-Bwa languages, also known as Bugunish and Kamengic, are a small family of languages spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India. The name ''Kho-Bwa'' was originally proposed by George van Driem (2001). It is based on the reconstructed ...

.Post, Mark W. and Roger Blench (2011).
Siangic: A new language phylum in North East India
, ''6th International Conference of the North East India Linguistics Society'', Tezpur University, Assam, India, Jan 31 – Feb 2 There are two distinct varieties, Mey of Shergaon and Mey of Rupa. The name ''Sherdukpen'' comes from the words Shergaon and ''Tukpen'' (the Monpa name for Rupa) (Blench & Post 2011:3). The language is known to speakers as ''Mey nyuk''.

Dialects

Lieberherr & Bodt (2017)Lieberherr, Ismael; Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus. 2017
Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary
In ''Himalayan Linguistics'', 16(2). list the following dialects of Sherdukpen. *Rupa: spoken in Rupa village and two other main villages, as well as nearby hamlets. Likely around 3,000 speakers. *Shergaon: spoken in Shergaon village. Likely around 1,500 speakers.

Locations

Sherdukpen The Sherdukpen are an ethnic group of Arunachal Pradesh state of India. Their population of 9,663 is centered in West Kameng district in the villages of Rupa, Jigaon, Thongri, Shergaon, to the south of Bomdila. All of these are at elevations be ...

is spoken in Shergaon, southern

West Kameng District West Kameng (pronounced ) is a district of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. It accounts for 8.86% of the total area of the state. The name is derived from the Kameng river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, that flows through the district ...

Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares int ...

(Dondrup 1988), located in the Tengapani river valley south of Bomdila. ''Ethnologue'' lists Rupa (Kupa), Sheinthuk (Shergaon), Jigang (Jigaon), and Thungree villages, located south of Bomdi La Range and Tengapani river valleys in

References

*Dondrup, Rinchin. 1988. ''A handbook on Sherdukpen language''. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Arunachal Pradesh Government. Kho-Bwa languages Languages of India {{st-lang-stub