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3 unusual facts about Lhuntse District


Chocangaca language

Choca-ngaca or Chocangacakha (Dzongkha: ཁྱོད་ཅ་ང་ཅ་ཁ་; Wylie: Khyod-ca-nga-ca-kha; also called "Kursmadkha," "Maphekha," "Rtsamangpa'ikha," and "Tsagkaglingpa'ikha") or Tsamang is a Southern Tibetan language spoken by about 20,000 people in the Kurichu Valley of Lhuntse and Mongar Districts in eastern Bhutan.

Kurtöp language

The Kurtöp language (Dzongkha: ཀུར་ཏོ་པ་ཁ་; Wylie: Kur-to-pa kha; Kurtöpkha, also called Kurtö and Zhâke) is a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken in the Kurtoe Gewog, Lhuntse District, Bhutan.

Lhuntse District

This region is renowned as a textiles producing region, and also as the ancestral homeland of the Bhutanese royal family.



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