The Kurtöp language (
Dzongkha
Dzongkha (; ) is a Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Burman language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. It is written using the Tibetan script.
The word means "the language of the fortress", from ' "fortress" and ' "language ...
: ཀུར་ཏོ་པ་ཁ་;
Wylie: ''Kur-to-pa kha''; Kurtöpkha, also called Kurtö and Zhâke) is an
East Bodish language spoken in
Kurtoe Gewog,
Lhuntse District
Lhuentse District (Dzongkha: ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie transliteration, Wylie: ''Lhun-rtse rdzong-khag''; previously "Lhuntshi", and officially spelled ''Lhuentse'' ) is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) in Bhuta ...
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Bhutan
Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, in the Eastern Himalayas between China to the north and northwest and India to the south and southeast. With a population of over 727,145 and a territory of , ...
. 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 languages, 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
There are two dozen languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except for Nepali, which is an Indo-Aryan language, and the Bhutanese Sign Language. Dzongkha, the national language, is the only native language of Bhu ...
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Languages of Bhutan
East Bodish languages
Languages written in Tibetan script