Kurtöp language
{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Bhutan}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Kurtöp
|nativename=Kurtöpkha, Zhâke
|states= Bhutan
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|speakers=15,000
|date=2011
|ref=e18
|fam2=Tibeto-Burman
|fam3=Tibeto-Kanauri (?)
|fam4=Bodish
|fam5=East Bodish
|script=Tibetan script{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
|iso3=xkz
|glotto=kurt1248
|glottorefname=Kurtokha
}}
File:Pema speaking Kurtöp.webm
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.{{cite web |url=http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:3003 |format=PDF |last=van Driem |first=George L. |author-link=George van Driem |title=Language Policy in Bhutan |publisher=SOAS |location=London |year=1993 |access-date=2011-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101084255/http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo%3A3003 |archive-date=2010-11-01 |url-status=dead }}
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".{{cite book|title=Bhutan: Mountain Fortress of the Gods |first=Christian |last=Schicklgruber |editor=Françoise Pommaret-Imaeda |publisher=Shambhala |year=1998 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Q1uAAAAMAAJ |pages=50, 53|isbn=9780906026441 }}{{cite book|first=George |last=van Driem |author-link=George van Driem |editor-last=Moseley |editor-first=Christopher |contribution=Endangered Languages of Bhutan and Sikkim: East Bodish Languages |title=Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages |year=2007 |page=295 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-7007-1197-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LoNl7ZRO70C}}{{cite book|title=Language diversity endangered |volume=181 |series=Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, Mouton Reader |author-link=George van Driem |last=van Driem |first=George |page=312 |editor=Matthias Brenzinger |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |year=2007 |isbn=978-3-11-017050-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6p6b5GQ4Q4YC}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite conference|last=Hyslop |first=G. |chapter=Kurtöp Phonology in the Context of North East India |date=2008 |title=North East Indian Linguistics |editor-last=Morey |editor-first=S. |editor-last2=Post |editor-first2=M. |journal=North East Indian Linguistics 1: Papers from the First International Conference of the North East Indian Linguistic Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |pages=3–25 |doi=10.1017/UPO9788175968431.003|isbn=978-81-7596-843-1 }}
- {{cite conference|last=Hyslop |first=G. |year=2008b |title=Kurtöp and the classification of the languages of Bhutan |conference=Proceedings from the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 42 |volume=2 |book-title=South Asian Linguistics, Case, Voice, and Language Coexistence |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |url=https://www.dzongkha.gov.bt/uploads/files/articles/HYSLOP_Kurt%C3%B6p_and_the_Classification_of_the_Languages_of_Bhutan_CLS_proceedings_6acff2411125abc147439f0e5c5cafb0.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Hyslop |first=G. |year=2009 |title=Kurtöp Tone: A tonogenetic case study |journal=Lingua |volume=119 |issue=6 |pages=827–845 |doi=10.1016/j.lingua.2007.11.012}}
- {{Cite thesis |last=Hyslop |first=Gwendolyn |title=A grammar of Kurtöp |date=2011 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Oregon |hdl=1794/11466 |hdl-access=free }}
- {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZoEtDgAAQBAJ |title=A Grammar of Kurtöp |last=Hyslop |first=Gwendolyn |date=2017 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-29250-5 |series=Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume: 18 |location=Leiden}}
- {{cite book|last=Namgyel |first=Singye |title=The Language Web of Bhutan |publisher=KMT |location=Thimphu |year=2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dSgOAAAAYAAJ}}
- {{cite book|title=Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region: Containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language |last=van Driem |first=George |author-link=George van Driem |year=2001 |publisher=Brill Publishers |isbn=90-04-12062-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fiavPYCz4dYC}}
- {{cite book|last1=van Driem |first1=George L. |author-link=George van Driem |first2=Karma |last2=Tshering |title=Dzongkha |series=Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region |publisher=Research School CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies |location=Leiden |year=1998 |isbn=90-5789-002-X |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fiwOAAAAYAAJ}}
External links
- {{cite web |url=http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/languages/bumthang |work=Himalayan Languages Project |title=Bumthang |access-date=2011-02-26 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514200957/http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/languages/bumthang |archive-date=2011-05-14 }}
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{{Languages of Bhutan}}
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