Kurtöp (Kurtöp: ཀུར་ཏོཏ་པི་ཁ་, Kurtotpikha), also known as Zhâke (ཞཱ་ཀེ་) or Au Gemale (ཨའུ་གེ་མ་ལེ), is an endangered East Bodish language spoken by about 4,500 people primarily in the Lhüntse District of Bhutan. It is spoken by the Kurtöps, a group of subsistence and dairy farmers in the traditional Kurtö region near the Bhutan–China border, though some local Kurtöps speak Dzala or Chocangacakha instead.
Kurtöp (Kurtöp: ཀུར་ཏོཏ་པི་ཁ་, Kurtotpikha), also known as Zhâke (ཞཱ་ཀེ་) or Au Gemale (ཨའུ་གེ་མ་ལེ), is an endangered East Bodish language spoken by about 4,500 people primarily in the Lhüntse District of Bhutan. It is spoken by the Kurtöps, a group of subsistence and dairy farmers in the traditional Kurtö region near the Bhutan–China border, though some local Kurtöps speak Dzala or Chocangacakha instead.
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