Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Bhutan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 |
Ethnicity | Bhutanese |
Native speakers | 171,080 (2013)[1] Total speakers: 640,000[2] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Early forms | Proto-Sino-Tibetan
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Dialects |
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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. | |
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