Kolong language

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sTodpa
Kolong
སཏོད་པ sTodpa
Native to	Himachal Pradesh
Region	Upper Bhaga Valley
Native speakers	2100
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Western Tibeto-Burman Bodish West Himalayish Kinauri sTodpa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Kolong (natively known as sTodpa) is a language spoken in upper parts of Bhaga Valley in Lahaul Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh.

History

The area was one of the several kothi or administrative divisions of Lahaul and named Kothi Kolong, where Kolong is chief village of the Kothi. Grierson termed the language as Lahaul dialect and classified it under Tibeto-Himalayan group of Tibeto-Burman family.

The language was first studied after Moravian Church mission office's foundation in 1854. H.A. Jaeschke's Tibetan-English dictionary was published in 1881. This work includes a comparative table of some words from different languages spoken in region, including words from sTodpa, but without explicitly mentioning the name of the language. The work then was largely scanty.

It was in 1934, when Roerich studied this language extensively, naming it Kolong.

People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), in its survey found out two prominent features of the language - distinct tone and simplification of compound consonant. A grammer book has also been published.