Naapa language

Naaba
	Naapa
Region	Nepal
Native speakers	770 (2006)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic Dzongkha–Lhokä Naaba; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nao
Glottolog	naab1241[2]

Naapa (Naaba), or Nawa Sherpa, is a Tibetic language of Nepal (and one village in China) closely related to Dzongkha of Bhutan. Speakers live among Lhomi speakers.

References

Naaba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Naaba". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Naaba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Naaba". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.