The Kurtöp language (
Dzongkha: ཀུར་ཏོ་པ་ཁ་;
Wylie: ''Kur-to-pa kha''; Kurtöpkha, also called Kurtö and Zhâke) is an
East Bodish language spoken in
Kurtoe Gewog
Kurtoed Gewog (Dzongkha: ཀུར་སྟོད་) is a gewog (village block) of Lhuntse District, Bhutan. It is inhabited by speakers of the Kurtöp language
The Kurtöp language (Dzongkha: ཀུར་ཏོ་པ་ཁ་; Wylie: ''Kur-t ...
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Lhuntse District
Lhuntse District ( Dzongkha: ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Lhun-rtse rdzong-khag''; previously "Lhuntshi") is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. It consists of 2506 households. Located in the n ...
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Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountai ...
. In 1993, there were about 10,000 speakers of Kurtöp.
Related languages
Historically, Kurtöp and its speakers have had close contact with speakers of
Bumthang,
Nupbi and
Kheng language
The Khengkha language (Dzongkha ྨཕགལཔམཕ), or Kheng, is an East Bodish language spoken by ~40,000 native speakers worldwide, in the Zhemgang, Trongsa, and Mongar districts of south–central Bhutan.
Classification
Khengkha is a di ...
s, nearby languages of central and eastern Bhutan to the extent that they may be considered part of a wider collection of "Bumthang languages".
See also
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Languages of Bhutan
References
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Languages of Bhutan
East Bodish languages
Languages written in Tibetan script