Kurtöp language

Kurtöp
Kurtöpkha, Zhâke
Region	Bhutan
Native speakers	15,000 (2011)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish East Bodish Kurtöp
Writing system	Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xkz
Glottolog	kurt1248[2]

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, Lhuntse District, Bhutan. In 1993, there were about 10,000 speakers of Kurtöp.^[3]

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".^[4][5][6]

See also

• Languages of Bhutan

References

1. Kurtöp at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kurtokha". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. van Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy in Bhutan" (PDF). London: SOAS. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
4. Schicklgruber, Christian (1998). Françoise Pommaret-Imaeda, ed. Bhutan: Mountain Fortress of the Gods. Shambhala. pp. 50, 53.
5. van Driem, George (2007). "Endangered Languages of Bhutan and Sikkim: East Bodish Languages". In Moseley, Christopher. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages. Routledge. p. 295. ISBN 0-7007-1197-X.
6. van Driem, George (2007). Matthias Brenzinger, ed. Language diversity endangered. Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, Mouton Reader 181. Walter de Gruyter. p. 312. ISBN 3-11-017050-7.

Further reading

• Hyslop, G. (2008a). Morey, S., Post, M., ed. "Kurtöp phonology in the context of Northeast India". North East Indian Linguistics 1: Papers from the First International Conference of the North East Indian Linguistic Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 3–25.
• Hyslop, G. (2008b). "Kurtöp and the classification of the languages of Bhutan". South Asian Linguistics, Case, Voice, and Language Coexistence. Proceedings from the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 42. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Hyslop, G. (2009). "Kurtöp Tone: A tonogenetic case study". Lingua 119: 827–845.
• Namgyel, Singye (2003). The Language Web of Bhutan. Thimphu: KMT.
• van Driem, George (2001). Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region: Containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language. Brill Publishers. ISBN 90-04-12062-9.
• van Driem, George L.; Karma Tshering (1998). Dzongkha. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Leiden: Research School CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies. ISBN 90-5789-002-X.

External links

• "Bumthang". Himalayan Languages Project. Retrieved 2011-02-26.