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Bumthang
Native to
Bhutan
Native speakers
20,000 (2011)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Kanauri (?)
Bodish
East Bodish
Bumthang
Language codes
ISO 639-3
kjz
Glottolog
bumt1240
The Bumthang language (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་ཁ་, Wylie: bum thang kha); also called "Bhumtam", "Bumtang(kha)", "Bumtanp", "Bumthapkha", and "Kebumtamp") is an East Bodish language spoken by about 20,000 people in Bumthang and surrounding districts of Bhutan.[2][3] Van Driem (1993) describes Bumthang as the dominant language of central Bhutan.[3]
^Bumthang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^"Bumthangkha". Ethnologue Online. Dallas: SIL International. 2006. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
^ abvan Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy in Bhutan". London: SOAS. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
The Bumthanglanguage (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་ཁ་, Wylie: bum thang kha); also called "Bhumtam", "Bumtang(kha)", "Bumtanp", "Bumthapkha", and "Kebumtamp") is...
Bumthang is also nationally famous for yatha and bumthna matha weaving. East Bodish languages are primarily spoken in Bumthang District. The language...
linguistic and cultural groups, such as the Kheng people and speakers of Bumthanglanguage. The Ngalop are concentrated in the western and central valleys of...
"Bumthanglanguages." The term Ngalop may subsume several related linguistic and cultural groups, such as the Kheng people and speakers of Bumthang language...
Sino-Tibetan language family but falls into the subcategories of: Tibetio-Burman, Western Tubeto-Burman, Bodish, East Bodish, Bumthang, and Khengkha...
consolidation, the Bumthang Kingdom became Bumthang Province, one of the nine Provinces of Bhutan. The region was roughly analogous to modern-day Bumthang District...
Trongsa, Bumthang, Dagana, and Mongar Districts of central Bhutan. They speak the Kheng language, a member of the extended Sino-Tibetan language family...
its speakers have had close contact with speakers of Bumthang, Kurtöp and Kheng, nearby languages of central and eastern Bhutan, to the extent that they...
Bumthangkha or Bumthanglanguage, a member of the extended Sino-Tibetan language family. It is mutually intelligible with the Kheng language to the south...
Bumthang Valley is the main inhabited valley in the Bumthang district of Bhutan. Bumthang is one of the most beautiful and sacred valleys in Bhutan. The...
'Olekha is most closely related to the Bumthanglanguage; both are East Bodish languages. Tshangla and related languages form a sister branch not to the East...
Dhur in Bumthang Valley of Bumthang District in central Bhutan. Brokkat is spoken by descendants of pastoral yakherd communities. Languages of Bhutan...
Limbu and Dumi, Kiranti languages spoken in eastern Nepal, and the Bumthanglanguage of central Bhutan. He authored Languages of the Himalayas, a two-volume...
An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
Bumthang Daga Kurmaed Kurtoed Paro Punakha Thimphu Trongsa Wangdue Phodrang Bumthang Province (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་; Wylie: bum-thang) was one of the nine...
East Bodish languages, though it shares many similarities with Bumthang. SIL reports that Takpa may be a dialect of the Brokpa language and that it been...
central-eastern region of Bhutan. It is the district capital (dzongkhag thromde) of Bumthang District and the location of Jakar Dzong, the regional dzong fortress....
states that Bumthang, Kheng and Kurtöp could be considered dialects of a single language. Bhutanese anthropologist Kelzang Tashi treats Bumthang, Kheng, and...
Khams Tibetan language Lakha East Bodish languagesBumthanglanguage Chali language Dakpa language Dzala language Kheng language Kurtöp language (Zhâke / Kurtoep-kha)...
Monpa language.] Beijing: 民族出版社 Minzu chubanshe. Michailovsky, Boyd and Martine Mazaudon (1994). “Preliminary Notes on the Languages of the Bumthang Group...
nearby languages of central and eastern Bhutan, to the extent that they may be considered part of a wider collection of "Bumthanglanguages." Nyenkha...
Photek from their album Modus Operandi kjz, the ISO 639-3 code for Bumthanglanguage, Bhutan This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
to their Dzongkha counterparts, but Cho-cha-nga-cha-kha has adopted the Bumthang infinitival ending -mala[.] Under pressure to assimilate into the mainstream...
of government of Bhutan. Ngodub was born in 1851 in the Tang Valley of Bumthang in central Bhutan. While still a child, he was identified as the fifth...
Wylie: byams pa, THL Jampé Lhakhang) or Temple of Maitreya is located in Bumthang (Jakar) in Bhutan, and is said to be one of the 108 temples built by Tibetan...
following languages: Bumthang Byangsi Puma Rabha Rongpo Members of the project are currently working on grammatical sketches of the following languages: Baram...
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