Tags: Language.
The Dakpa language (Dzongkha: དཀ་པ་ཁ་; Wylie: Dak-pa-kha; also called Dakpakha and D°akpakha) is an East Bodish language spoken by about 1000 people in northern Trashigang District in eastern Bhutan mainly in Chaleng Phongmey Yobinang Dangpholeng and Lengkhar near Radhi. Van Driem (2001) describes Dakpa as the most divergent of Bhutan’s East Bodish languages. SIL reports that Dakpa may be dialect of Brokpake and that it been influenced by Dzalakha while Brokpake has not.