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Olekha, also called the Black Mountain Monpa language, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by about 1,000 people in the Black Mountains of the Wangdue Phodrang and Trongsa Districts in western Bhutan. The term 'Ole refers to a clan of speakers. The language was unknown beyond its immediate area until 1990, and is now highly endangered. George van Driem described 'Olekha as a remnant of the primordial population of the Black Mountains before the southward expansion of the ancient East Bodish tribes. More recently, Gwendolyn Hyslop, with the agreement of van Driem, has suggested that the 'Olekha is an isolated Tibeto-Burman language heavily influenced by East Bodish. The distantly related Tshangla language language of eastern Bhutan, also called Monpa and predating Dzongkha, also belongs to the Tibeto-Burman languages. While 'Olekha is most closely related to the Bumthang language, both being East Bodish languages, Tshangla and related languages form a sister branch not to the East Bodish group, but to its parent Bodish branch. Thus the ambiguous term Monpa risks separating languages that should be grouped together, while grouping languages together that are quite separate.
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