Tshangla

POPULATION: Population total all countries 145,000 (138,000 in Bhutan) ALTERNATE NAMES: SANGLA, SHARCHAGPAKHA, SARCHAPKKHA, SHACHOPKHA, SHACHOBIIKHA, TSANGLA, MENBA, MONPA CLASSIFICATION: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Himalayish, Tibeto-Kanauri, Tibetic, Bodish, Tshangla Tshangla, the name of an ethnic group who speak Sharchokpa-lo, has become more like a name of the language than ethnicity in modern linguistics with many scholars (van Driem 1998, Andvik 1993, …