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{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Chakpa<br />
| altname = Loi<br />
| states = [[India]]<br />
| region = [[Manipur]]<br />
| ethnicity = <br />
| extinct = by 1950s<br />
| ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Atlas of the world's languages in danger|url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026|website=[[UNESCO]]|page=202|date=2010|access-date=2024-12-28|author1=Christopher Moseley|author2=Alexandre Nicolas}}</ref><br />
| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan<br />
| fam2 = [[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]]<br />
| fam3 = [[Sal languages|Sal]]<br />
| fam4 = [[Jingpho–Luish languages|Jingpho–Luish]]<br />
| fam5 = [[Luish languages|Luish]]<br />
| dia1 = Andro<br />
| dia2 = Sengmai (Sekmai)<br />
| dia3 = Phayeng<br />
| dia4 = Chairel<br />
| dia5 = Khurkhul<br />
| iso3 = none<br />
| glotto = andr1245<br />
| glottorefname = Chakpa<br />
| isoexception = dialect<br />
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}}<br />
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'''Chakpa''' ([[Meitei language|Meitei]]) is a [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan language]] that was spoken in the [[Imphal]] valley of [[Manipur]], [[India]]. It belonged to the [[Luish languages|Luish]] branch of the Sino-Tibetan family. Chakpa speakers have been shifted to that of [[Meitei language]].<ref name="Huziwara 2020">{{Cite journal |last=Huziwara |first=Keisuke |date=2020 |title=On the Genetic Position of Chakpa Within Luish Languages |journal=Himalayan Linguistics |language=en |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=44–55 |doi=10.5070/H91150999 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Varieties of the language included Sengmai and Andro.<ref name="Matisoff 2013">{{harvp|Matisoff|2013}}</ref><br />
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Chakpa was spoken in villages such as Andro, Sekmai (Sengmai), Phayeng, Khurkhul and Chairel, all of which are now Meitei-speaking villages.<ref name="Huziwara 2020" /><br />
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==Other names==<br />
{{further|Loi}}<br />
''[[Loi]]'' (or ''Lui''; hence "[[Luish languages|Luish]]") is a [[Meithei language|Meitei]] [[endonym and exonym|exonym]] that includes Chakpa. Although Chakpa are typically considered to be Loi, not all Loi are Chakpa. For example, [[Kakching]] and Kwakta are Loi villages that are not Chakpa.<ref name="Huziwara 2020" /><br />
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==Documentation==<br />
Chakpa is preserved in written manuscripts that are recited by religious scholars during traditional ceremonies, such as those of the [[Lai Haraoba]] festival.<ref name="Huziwara 2020" /><br />
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Chakpa word lists can be found in McCulloch (1859)<ref name="McCulloch 1859">{{Cite book |last=McCulloch |first=W. |url={{google books|OeYwAQAAMAAJ|plainurl=yes}} |title=Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill Tribes: With a Comparative Vocabulary of the Munnipore and Other Languages |date=1859 |publisher=Bengal Printing Company |location=Calcutta |language=en}}</ref> and Basanta (1998).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Basanta |first=Ningombam |title=Modernisation, Challenge and Response: A Study of the Chakpa Community of Manipur |date=2008 |publisher=Akansha Publishing House |location=New Delhi |language=en}}</ref><br />
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The Chairel variety is documented in a word list by McCulloch (1859).<ref name="McCulloch 1859" /><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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* {{Cite journal |last=Huziwara |first=Keisuke 藤原 敬介 |date=2012 |title=Rui sogo no saikou ni mukete |script-title=ja:ルイ祖語の再構にむけて |trans-title=Toward a Reconstruction of Proto-Luish |journal=Kyōtodaigaku gengogaku kenkyū |language=ja |volume=31 |pages=25–131 |doi=10.14989/182194 |doi-access=free |hdl-access=free |script-journal=ja:京都大学言語学研究 |hdl=2433/182194}}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Matisoff |first=James A. |date=2013 |title=Re-Examining the Genetic Position of Jingpho: Putting Flesh on the Bones of the Jingpho/Luish Relationship |url=http://sealang.net/archives/ltba/pdf/LTBA-36.2.15.pdf |journal=Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area |language=en |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=15–95}}<br />
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