Gserpa (
Wylie: ''gser pa''; Chinese: 色尔坝; also ''Gserskad''
) is an eastern
Tibetic language of
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 th ...
. 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 diale ...
:གསེར་པ་;
Wylie: gser pa;
Tibetan pinyin: Sêrba;
Chinese: 色尔坝;
pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese fo ...
: 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 ...
,
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 th ...
,
China and is different from the
Amdo Tibetan language
Amdo Tibetan (; also called ''Am kä'') is the Tibetic language spoken in Amdo (now mostly in Qinghai, some in Ngawa and Gannan). It has two dialects, the farmer dialect and the nomad dialect.
Amdo is one of the three branches of traditional c ...
, 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
{{Languages of China
Bodic languages
Languages of China