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    The Bumthang language (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་ཁ་, Wylie: bum thang kha; also called Bhumtam, Bumtang(kha), Bumtanp, Bumthapkha, and Kebumtamp) is an East Bodish...
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    [better source needed] East Bodish languages are primarily spoken in Bumthang District. The language spoken in the Bumthang district is known as Bumthangkha...
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  • Bumthang may refer to: Bumthang (town), officially Jakar Bumthang District Bumthang River Bumthang Kingdom Bumthang people Bumthang language Bumthang...
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  • Bumthangkha or Bumthang language, a member of the extended Sino-Tibetan language family. It is mutually intelligible with the Kheng language to the south...
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  • consolidation, the Bumthang Kingdom became Bumthang Province, one of the nine Provinces of Bhutan. The region was roughly analogous to modern-day Bumthang District...
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    Ngalop people (category Articles containing Dzongkha-language text)
    linguistic and cultural groups, such as the Kheng people and speakers of Bumthang language. The Ngalop are concentrated in the western and central valleys of...
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  • 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...
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    Dzongkha Bumthang Kurtöp Dzala Khampa Tibetan Lakha Nyen 'Olekha (Monpa) Brokkat Chocangacakha Chali Dakpa Brokpa Nepali Nepali Nepali Lepcha Lhokpu Kheng...
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  • Trongsa, Bumthang, Dagana, and Mongar Districts of central Bhutan. They speak the Kheng language, a member of the extended Sino-Tibetan language family...
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    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...
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  • 'Olekha is most closely related to the Bumthang language; both are East Bodish languages. Tshangla and related languages form a sister branch not to the East...
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  • of "Bumthang languages". Languages of Bhutan Kurtöp at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) van Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy...
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    Bumthang Daga Kurmaed Kurtoed Paro Punakha Thimphu Trongsa Wangdue Phodrang Bumthang Province (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་; Wylie: bum-thang) was one of the nine...
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  • states that Bumthang, Kheng and Kurtöp could be considered dialects of a single language. Bhutanese anthropologist Kelzang Tashi treats Bumthang, Kheng, and...
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    "Bumthang languages." The term Ngalop may subsume several related linguistic and cultural groups, such as the Kheng people and speakers of Bumthang language...
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  • 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...
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    nearby languages of central and eastern Bhutan, to the extent that they may be considered part of a wider collection of "Bumthang languages." Nyenkha...
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    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...
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    George van Driem (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Limbu and Dumi, Kiranti languages spoken in eastern Nepal, and the Bumthang language of central Bhutan. He authored Languages of the Himalayas, a two-volume...
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  • an endangered Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 300 people in the village of Dhur in Bumthang Valley of Bumthang District in central Bhutan. Brokkat...
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  • Sino-Tibetan language family but falls into the subcategories of: Tibetio-Burman, Western Tubeto-Burman, Bodish, East Bodish, Bumthang, and Khengkha...
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    Jakar (redirect from Bumthang (town))
    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....
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  • to their Dzongkha counterparts, but Cho-cha-nga-cha-kha has adopted the Bumthang infinitival ending -mala[.] Under pressure to assimilate into the mainstream...
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    Bhutan (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    temples, Jambay Lhakhang at Bumthang in central Bhutan and Kyichu Lhakhang (near Paro) in the Paro Valley. Dzongkha Bumthang Kurtöp Dzala Khampa Tibetan...
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    Yeshe Ngodub (category People from Bumthang District)
    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...
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  • least researched branches of Sino-Tibetan. Languages regarded as members of this family include Bumthang (Michailovsky and Mazaudon 1994; van Driem 1995)...
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  • Photek from their album Modus Operandi kjz, the ISO 639-3 code for Bumthang language, Bhutan This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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    George van Driem (2001:870) proposes that the Greater Bumthang (East Bodish) languages, including Bumthang, Khengkha, and Kurtöp, may have a Gongduk substratum...
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    Outline of Bhutan (category Articles containing Dzongkha-language text)
    Khams Tibetan language Lakha East Bodish languages Bumthang language Chali language Dakpa language Dzala language Kheng language Kurtöp language (Zhâke / Kurtoep-kha)...
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    Chhume Gewog (category Bumthang District)
    Bumthangkha: Chunmat) is a gewog (village block) of Bumthang District, Bhutan. The dominant local language is Bumthang, a close relation to Dzongkha. "-". Royal...
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