Kurtöp language
The Kurtöp language (Dzongkha: ཀུར་ཏོ་པ་ཁ་; Wylie: Kur-to-pa kha; Kurtöpkha, also called Kurtö and Zhâke) is a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken in the Kurtoe Gewog, Lhuntse District, Bhutan. There are about 10,000 speakers of Kurtöp.[1]
Related languages
Historically, the language and its speakers have had close contact with speakers of Bumthangkha, Nupbikha and Khengkha, nearby languages of central and eastern Bhutan to the extent that they may be considered part of a wider collection of "Bumthang languages."[2][3][4]
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References
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. 2. 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. pp. 827–845.
- Namgyel, Singye (2003). The Language Web of Bhutan. Thimphu: KMT. http://books.google.com/books?id=dSgOAAAAYAAJ.
- 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. ISBN 9004120629. http://books.google.com/books?id=fiavPYCz4dYC.
- 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 905789002X. http://books.google.com/books?id=fiwOAAAAYAAJ.
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