ཀུར་ཏོབ་ཁ

Kurtöp

Sino-Tibetan

SprachfamilieSino-Tibetan Sprecher~10K SchriftTibetan script adapted for East Bodish phonology LänderBhutan Amtssprache inNo (Dzongkha is sole national language of Bhutan; Kurtöp is recognized as one Vitalitätvulnerable ISO 639-3xkz

Kurtöp is an East Bodish Sino-Tibetan language of eastern Bhutan, spoken in the Lhuntse Dzongkhag (Kurtoe gewog area) by ~10,000 people. Linguistically distinct from the national language Dzongkha (which is Tibetic, not East Bodish), Kurtöp belongs to the East Bodish branch alongside Bumthang, Khengkha, and Chocha-ngachakha — a small group of Bhutanese minority languages preserving features lost in mainstream Tibetic. Hyslop's 2017 reference grammar (A Grammar of Kurtöp) is the major modern documentation, revealing complex tone-vowel interactions, morphological evidentiality, and contact-induced changes from Dzongkha and Tshangla. Despite small speaker numbers, Kurtöp shows relative vitality due to geographic isolation, but UNESCO classifies East Bodish languages as vulnerable due to gradual shift toward Dzongkha in education and media.

Wo es gesprochen wird

20 Kernwörter in Kurtöp

Wasser

khwe

/kʰwe/

Feuer

mi

/mi/

Sonne

ningpe

/niŋpe/

Mond

lai

/lai/

Mutter

amai

/amai/

Vater

apai

/apai/

Essen

za

/za/

Trinken

thung

/tʰuŋ/

Liebe

ga

/ɡa/

Herz

nying

/ɲiŋ/

Baum

shing

/ɕiŋ/

Haus

khim

/kʰim/

Hund

khwi

/kʰwi/

Katze

byila

/bila/

Hand

lak

/lak/

Auge

mik

/mik/

Hallo

kuzu zangpo

/kuzu zaŋpo/

Danke

kadrinche

/kadrintɕe/

Eins

thê

/tʰe/

Gut

lekpo

/lekpo/

Quellen

Wörter im Vergleich

Verglichen mit verwandten Sino-Tibetan-Sprachen

Bedeutung KurtöpDzongkhaSikkimesischBaltiLadakhiKlassisches TibetischKhams-Tibetisch
Wasser khwe /kʰwe/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/
Feuer mi /mi/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/
Sonne ningpe /niŋpe/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/
Mond lai /lai/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /zlawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/
Mutter amai /amai/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/
Vater apai /apai/ ཨ་པ /apa/ ཨ་པ /apa/ ཨ་ཕ /apʰa/ ཨ་པ /apa/ /pʰa/ ཨ་ཕ /apʰa/
Essen za /za/ བཟའ /za/ /za/ /za/ /za/ བཟའ /za/ /za/
Trinken thung /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ ཐུང་ /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང་ /tʰuŋ/
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