Sharchops
Total population | |
---|---|
212,500[ Southwest China (Tibet Autonomous Region) Northeast India (Assam and Arunachal Pradesh (Monpa tribes: Khalaktang, Dirang; Memba tribe: Tuting)) | |
Languages | |
Tshangla · Monpa languages · Dzongkha · Tibetan Languages | |
Religion | |
Tibetan Buddhism · Bon | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Monpa · Ngalop · Tibetan people |
The Sharchops (
Ethnicity
The Sharchops are an Indo-Mongoloid[
Population
The Sharchops comprise most of the population of eastern Bhutan, a country whose total population in 2010 was approximately 708,500.[7] Although they have long been the largest single ethnic group in Bhutan, the Sharchop have been largely assimilated into the culturally and politically dominant Tibetic Ngalop culture.[8] Together, the Ngalop, Sharchop, and tribal groups constituted up to 72 percent of the population in the late 1980s, according to official Bhutanese statistics.[8][9] The 1981 census claimed that Sharchops represented 30% of the population, and Ngalops approximately 17%.[10] The World Factbook, however, estimates that the "Bhote" Ngalop and Sharchop ethnic groups together comprise approximately 50% of Bhutan's population, at 354,200 people.[7] Assuming Sharchops still outnumber Ngalops at a 3:2 ratio, the total population of Sharchops in Bhutan is approximately 212,500.
Language
Most Sharchops speak
Tshangla is also spoken by the
Lifestyle
Sharchop peoples practice slash-and-burn and tsheri agriculture, planting dry rice crops for three or four years until the soil is exhausted and then moving on,[8] however the practice has been officially banned in Bhutan since 1969.[13][14]
Most of the Sharchops follow
Religion
Most Sharchops follow
See also
References
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- ^ a b c d This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Robert L. Worden (September 1991). Andrea Matles Savada (ed.). Bhutan: A Country Study. Federal Research Division. Ethnic Groups.
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- ^ This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Robert L. Worden (September 1991). Andrea Matles Savada (ed.). Bhutan: A Country Study. Federal Research Division. Farming.
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