The Kurtöp language is a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken in the Kurtoe Gewog

Kurtoe Gewog

Kurtoed Gewog is a gewog of Lhuntse District, Bhutan. This gewog is inhabited by speakers of the Kurtöp language....

, Lhuntse District, Bhutan

Bhutan

Bhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China...

. There are about 10,000 speakers of Kurtöp.

Related languages

Historically, the language and its speakers have had close contact with speakers of Bumthangkha, Nupbikha and Khengkha

Khengkha

Khengkha, also called the Kheng language, is a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken in the Zhemgang, Trongsa and Mongar districts of south central Bhutan...

, nearby languages of central and eastern Bhutan to the extent that they may be considered part of a wider collection of "Bumthang languages."