Dzongkha
Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Bhutan
Dzongkha or Bhutanese (རྫོང་ཁ་, [dzoŋkʰa]), is the national language of Bhutan.
Dzongkha | |
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Bhutanese | |
རྫོང་ཁ་ | |
Native to | Bhutan China India
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Ethnicity | Bhutanese |
Native speakers | 171,080 (2013)[1] Total speakers: 640,000[2] |
Early forms | |
Dialects | |
Tibetan alphabet Dzongkha Braille | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Bhutan |
Regulated by | Dzongkha Development Commission |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | dz |
ISO 639-2 | dzo |
ISO 639-3 | dzo – inclusive codeIndividual codes: lya – Layaluk – Lunanaadp – Adap |
Glottolog | nucl1307 |
Linguasphere | 70-AAA-bf |
Districts of Bhutan in which the Dzongkha language is spoken natively are highlighted in yellow. | |
References
change- ↑ Dzongkha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Laya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Lunana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Adap at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ "How many people speak Dzongkha?". languagecomparison.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
Dzongkha edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia