Bhootanese

A dialect of the Bhotiya family, spoken in the modern Bhootan; it is allied to Tamul .     G. R.   Bhot or Bhotia . The language of Bhot or Bootan . The people of all Thibet, from Ladak to La a, are Bhotiäs , and inhabit the whole length of the Himalaya, along the snowy range on its S. face in Kumaon, Nipal and Sikim. Papers by Mr. Hodgson, in the “Asiatic Society’s Journal of Bengal.” A.C. ⁂ Bhot or Bhotiya: native name for Thibet or Tibet and the Tibetans; Bútan and Bultistan are from the same root, and serve to indicate the great spread of the Tibetan race. The Bútan is call themselves Lhopa.     R. G. L.   See Thibet an .