Kurtöp language

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.^[2]

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

Pema speaking 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".^[3][4][5]

See also

• Languages of Bhutan