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...
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Dzongkha Bumthang Kurtöp Dzala Khampa Tibetan Lakha Nyen 'Olekha (Monpa) Brokkat Chocangacakha Chali Dakpa Brokpa Nepali Nepali Nepali Lepcha Lhokpu Kheng...
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the Bumthang language and Kurtöp language to the north. The Kheng people are ethnolinguistically same as the Bumthang people and Kurtöp people of central...
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Lhuntse District (section Languages)
known as the Kurtö region, where inhabitants speak the East Bodish Kurtöp language. Lhuntse District is divided into eight village blocks (or gewogs):...
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collection of "Bumthang languages." Bumthang language is largely lexically similar with Kheng (98%), Nyen (75%–77%), and Kurtöp (70%–73%); but less so...
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with the Kheng language to the south and also to some extent with the Kurtöp language to the north. Linguist van Driem postulated that Khengkha, Bumthangkha...
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of the Bodish languages. As for grammars of the East Bodish languages, there is Das Gupta (1968) and Lu (2002). Some papers on Kurtöp include Hyslop...
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block) of Lhuntse District, Bhutan. It is inhabited by speakers of the Kurtöp language. "Chiwogs in Lhuentse" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan...
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Kheng and Kurtöp could be considered dialects of a single language. Bhutanese anthropologist Kelzang Tashi treats Bumthang, Kheng, and Kurtöp as dialects...
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An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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