ཀུར་ཏོབ་ཁ

Kurtöp

Sino-Tibetan

FamilleSino-Tibetan Locuteurs~10K ÉcritureTibetan script adapted for East Bodish phonology PaysBhutan Langue officielleNo (Dzongkha is sole national language of Bhutan; Kurtöp is recognized as one Vitalitévulnerable 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.

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20 mots essentiels en Kurtöp

Eau

khwe

/kʰwe/

Feu

mi

/mi/

Soleil

ningpe

/niŋpe/

Lune

lai

/lai/

Mère

amai

/amai/

Père

apai

/apai/

Manger

za

/za/

Boire

thung

/tʰuŋ/

Amour

ga

/ɡa/

Cœur

nying

/ɲiŋ/

Arbre

shing

/ɕiŋ/

Maison

khim

/kʰim/

Chien

khwi

/kʰwi/

Chat

byila

/bila/

Main

lak

/lak/

Œil

mik

/mik/

Bonjour

kuzu zangpo

/kuzu zaŋpo/

Merci

kadrinche

/kadrintɕe/

Un

thê

/tʰe/

Bon

lekpo

/lekpo/

Sources

Mots comparés

Comparé aux langues Sino-Tibetan apparentées

Sens KurtöpdzongkhaSikkimaisBaltiLadakhitibétain classiqueTibétain Khams
Eau khwe /kʰwe/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/
Feu mi /mi/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/
Soleil ningpe /niŋpe/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/
Lune lai /lai/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /zlawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/
Mère amai /amai/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/
Père apai /apai/ ཨ་པ /apa/ ཨ་པ /apa/ ཨ་ཕ /apʰa/ ཨ་པ /apa/ /pʰa/ ཨ་ཕ /apʰa/
Manger za /za/ བཟའ /za/ /za/ /za/ /za/ བཟའ /za/ /za/
Boire thung /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ ཐུང་ /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང་ /tʰuŋ/
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