ཀུར་ཏོབ་ཁ

Kurtöp

Sino-Tibetan

FamíliaSino-Tibetan Falantes~10K EscritaTibetan script adapted for East Bodish phonology PaísesBhutan Língua oficialNo (Dzongkha is sole national language of Bhutan; Kurtöp is recognized as one Vitalidadevulnerable 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 palavras essenciais em Kurtöp

Água

khwe

/kʰwe/

Fogo

mi

/mi/

Sol

ningpe

/niŋpe/

Lua

lai

/lai/

Mãe

amai

/amai/

Pai

apai

/apai/

Comer

za

/za/

Beber

thung

/tʰuŋ/

Amor

ga

/ɡa/

Coração

nying

/ɲiŋ/

Árvore

shing

/ɕiŋ/

Casa

khim

/kʰim/

Cão

khwi

/kʰwi/

Gato

byila

/bila/

Mão

lak

/lak/

Olho

mik

/mik/

Olá

kuzu zangpo

/kuzu zaŋpo/

Obrigado

kadrinche

/kadrintɕe/

Um

thê

/tʰe/

Bom

lekpo

/lekpo/

Fontes

Palavras comparadas

Comparado com línguas Sino-Tibetan relacionadas

Significado KurtöpdzongaSikkimeseBaltiLadakhitibetano clássicoKhams Tibetan
Água khwe /kʰwe/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/
Fogo mi /mi/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/
Sol ningpe /niŋpe/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/
Lua lai /lai/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /zlawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/
Mãe amai /amai/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/ ཨ་མ /ama/
Pai apai /apai/ ཨ་པ /apa/ ཨ་པ /apa/ ཨ་ཕ /apʰa/ ཨ་པ /apa/ /pʰa/ ཨ་ཕ /apʰa/
Comer za /za/ བཟའ /za/ /za/ /za/ /za/ བཟའ /za/ /za/
Beber thung /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ ཐུང་ /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ འཐུང་ /tʰuŋ/
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