Kurtöp language
| Kurtöp | |
|---|---|
| Kurtöpkha, Zhâke | |
| Native to | Bhutan |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2011)[1] |
| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xkz |
| Glottolog | kurt1248 |
| ELP | Kurtokha |
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]
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
References
- ^ Kurtöp at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- SOAS. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ISBN 9780906026441.
- ISBN 978-0-7007-1197-0.
- ISBN 978-3-11-017050-4.
Further reading
- Hyslop, G. (2008). "Kurtöp Phonology in the Context of North East India". In Morey, S.; Post, M. (eds.). North East Indian Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 3–25. )
- Hyslop, G. (2008b). "Kurtöp and the classification of the languages of Bhutan" (PDF). South Asian Linguistics, Case, Voice, and Language Coexistence. Proceedings from the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 42. Vol. 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Hyslop, G. (2009). "Kurtöp Tone: A tonogenetic case study". Lingua. 119 (6): 827–845. .
- Hyslop, Gwendolyn (2011). A grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis). University of Oregon. hdl:1794/11466.
- Hyslop, Gwendolyn (2017). A Grammar of Kurtöp. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume: 18. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-29250-5.
- Namgyel, Singye (2003). The Language Web of Bhutan. Thimphu: KMT.
- ISBN 90-04-12062-9.
- ISBN 90-5789-002-X.
External links
- "Bumthang". Himalayan Languages Project. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
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