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Champa

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Champa, a term applied collectively to numerous tribes in the upper valleys of Ladakh and the neighbouring Tibetan province of Rupshu; are of Tibetan stock and speech, and differ little from the Ladakhi proper, except that the chin is less receding and the mouth more expressive (Fr. Drew).

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