Palpa was the name of a purported language or dialect of western Nepal, apparently associated with Palpa District. A version of the New Testament was published in this language by the Serampore Mission Press in 1827.[2]: 18 In a 1916 volume of the Linguistic Survey of India, G.A. Grierson reproduced an extract of this text, with a one-page description of its grammar "more as a curiosity than as evidence of an existing form of speech", as it had been "impossible to check its correctness" due to the absence of other specimens.[2]: 75–77 He considers the language of this text to be a form of Nepali, but with some similarities to the Kumaoni spoken to the west in India.[2]: 18, 75
| Palpa | |
|---|---|
| Region | Nepal |
Language family | Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | plp (retired)[1] |
| Glottolog | palp1242 |
Palpa had an ISO 639-3 language code, plp, until it was retired in 2020 because of the continued absence of evidence for the existence of a separate language entity.[1]
It is not to be confused with the Palpa dialect of the Sino-Tibetan Western Magar language, also spoken in this area.