Bumthang is a member of the East Bodish branch of the language Tibeto-Burman language family. It is spoken by about 20,000 people mainly in the Bumthang District (བུམ་ཐང་རྫོང་ཁག།) in northern Bhutan, and also in nearby districts.
Bumthang is also known as Bhumtam, Bumtang(kha), Bumtanp, Bumthapkha, Kebumtamp or བུམ་ཐང་ཁ་ (bum thang kha) in Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan. The name Bumthang means "beautiful field" in Dzongkha. Bumthang is closely related to Kheng, Nyen and Kurtöp, which are spoken in central and eastern Bhutan.
The are ways to write Bumthang with the Tibetan and Latin scripts.
Download an alphabet chart for Bumthang (Excel)
Information about Bumthang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumthang_language
https://www.academia.edu/15605064/Synoptic_grammar_of_the_Bumthang_language_a_language_of_the_central_Bhutan_highlands
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41h0h8wm
Bumthang phrases
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bumthangkha_phrasebook
Amdo Tibetan, Bumthang, Choni, Dzongkha, Jirel, Kagate, Khams Tibetan, Khengkha, Ladakhi, Lhowa, Sherpa, Sikkimese, Tibetan, Tshangla
Amdo Tibetan, Balti, Bokar, Bumthang, Chocha Ngacha, Choni, Dzongkha (Bhutanese), Jirel, Khams Tibetan, Khengkha, Ladakhi, Sikkimese, Tibetan, Sherpa, Tamang, Tshangla
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 09.02.26. Last modified: 09.02.26
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