ʼOle language
| ʼOle | |
|---|---|
| Black Mountain Monpa | |
| Native to | Bhutan |
| Region | Black Mountains |
| Ethnicity | 100-150 ʼOle |
Native speakers | 1 (2016) L2: 2 (2016) |
possibly Sino-Tibetan or a linguistic isolate | |
| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ole |
| Glottolog | olek1239 |
| ELP | Olekha |
ʼOle is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
ʼOle, also called ʼOlekha or Black Mountain Monpa, is a moribund, possibly Sino-Tibetan language spoken natively by 1 person in the Black Mountains of Wangdue Phodrang and Trongsa Districts in western Bhutan. The term ʼOle refers to a clan of speakers.