Alternate Names: Naapa, Naapaa, Naba, Nawa Sherpa
Genealogy:
Demographics: 770 (2006).
Language Use: All ages. Inhabitants of Pharang and Dangok also use Lhomi [lhm].
Typology: SOV; postpositions; clause constituents indicated by case-marking; ergativity; no passives or voice; tonal.
Writing System: Unwritten
Nation of Origin: Nepal
Other Comments: The Lhomi , consider the Naaba people a distinct group. The Naaba have learned Lhomi as a language of wider communication, but are more culturally and linguistically similar to Sherpa , and Thudam , than to Lhomi. Buddhist.