From Lacquer Tree to Milk Tea
A Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha Dictionary with English Index
Will be published approx. on 11. November 2026
Book
Hardback
978-90-04-75142-2 (ISBN)
Description
Kurtöp is an endangered Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) language, spoken by approximately 5,000 people in eastern Bhutan. This book is the first published dictionary of the language, enriched with English definitions that contain examples, etymology, cultural details, and information about social and dialectal use. Entries also contain Dzongkha (Bhutan's national language) glosses in traditional 'Ucen script as well as in a Roman phonemic orthography that captures Dzongkha pronunciation from the 'Wangdi region, making this book the Dzongkha glossary to indicate how the words sound. The English glossary in the end of the book allows the reader to look up the over 10,000 entries from a thematically and alphabetically arranged index
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Persons
Gwendolyn Hyslop, PhD (2011), University of Oregon, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. She has published many articles on Bhutanese languages and their history, including A grammar of Kurtöp (Brill, 2017). Kuenga Lhendup, PhD (2025) University of Sydney, is a native speaker of Kurtöp and previously worked as Deputy Director of the Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan for fifteen years. He is currently Director of the Wangdicholing Museum in Bumthang. Pema Chhophyel, BA (2007), University of Oregon, is a native speaker of Kurtöp. He lives with his family in Tokyo, Japan, where he works as a Managing Consultant for Ascent Global Partners.