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EthnicityEdit
The Sharchops are an Indo-Mongoloid{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= Template:Fix }} people who migrated from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, or possibly Burma,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> c. 1200 – c. 800 BC.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Van Driem (1993) indicates that Sharchops are closely related to the Mönpa and that both are descendants of the indigenous Tibetic peoples (pre-Ngalop) of Bhutan. Due to the societal prominence and political power of Dzongkha-speaking Bhutanese, however, Sharchops are marginalized in Bhutan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Sharchops are the largest ethnic group in Bhutan.<ref name=vanDriem93>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=vanDriem1>Template:Cite book</ref>
PopulationEdit
The Sharchops comprise most of the population of eastern Bhutan, a country whose total population in 2010 was approximately 708,500.<ref name=CIA/> 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.<ref name=CS-EG>Template:Country study</ref> Together, the Ngalop, Sharchop, and tribal groups constituted up to 72 percent of the population in the late 1980s, according to official Bhutanese statistics.<ref name=CS-EG/><ref name=CS-s>Template:Country study</ref> The 1981 census claimed that Sharchops represented 30% of the population, and Ngalops approximately 17%.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name=CIA>Bhutan. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.</ref> Assuming Sharchops still outnumber Ngalops at a 3:2 ratio, the total population of Sharchops in Bhutan is approximately 212,500.
LanguageEdit
Most Sharchops speak Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language; fewer speak the Olekha language.<ref name=SIL1>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They also learn the national language, Dzongkha. Because of their proximity to Northeastern India, some speak Assamese. Bodo is also known to many of them because of socio cultural and trade relations.
Tshangla is also spoken by the Monpa (Menba) national minority across the border in China, distributed in Mêdog, Nyingchi and Dirang. Tshangla is similar to the Kalaktang and Dirang languages spoken by the Monpa of Arunachal Pradesh, India.<ref>Blench, Roger (2014). Sorting out Monpa: The relationships of the Monpa languages of Arunachal Pradesh.</ref>
LifestyleEdit
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,<ref name=CS-EG/> however the practice has been officially banned in Bhutan since 1969.<ref name=CS-F>Template:Country study</ref><ref name=FAO>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Most of the Sharchops follow matrilineal lines in the inheritance of land and livestock.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ReligionEdit
Most Sharchops follow Tibetan Buddhism with some elements of Bön, although those who live in the Duars follow Animism.<ref name=CS-EG/>