Olekha

OLE

threatened

Alternate Names: Black Mountain Language, Monkha, Monpa, Ole Mönpa

Dialects: None known. Retained complex verbal system of Proto-Tibeto-Burman.

Genealogy:

Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
Western Tibeto-Burman
Bodish

Demographics: 500 (Van Driem 2007).

Writing System: Unwritten

Nation of Origin: Bhutan

Other Comments: Reportedly an ancient population of Bhutan.