Wiki Languages: Dzongkha (ཇོང་ཁ)
Updated: 17-07-2024 by Wikilanguages.net
| Language: Dzongkha (Dzongkha) | Local name: ཇོང་ཁ |
| Language code: dz | Display language: Simple English (simple)|
| Speak area: Bhutan | Classification: Sino-Tibetan |
| Country: Bhutan | Second language: |
| Usage: national | Wiki language for Dzongkha |
Dictionary for Dzongkha (ཇོང་ཁ) in Simple English
| English | Dzongkha |
| ཇོང་ཁ | Simple English |
| Dzongkha | |
|---|---|
| Bhutanese | |
| རྫོང་ཁ་ | |
 The word "Dzongkha" in Jôyi, a Bhutanese form of the Uchen script | |
| Native to |  Bhutan China India |
| Ethnicity | Bhutanese |
Native speakers | 171,080 (2013)[1] Total speakers: 640,000[2] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
|
Early forms | Proto-Sino-Tibetan
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| Dialects |
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Writing system | Tibetan alphabet Dzongkha Braille |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Bhutan |
| Regulated by | Dzongkha Development Commission |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | |
| ISO 639-2 | |
| 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. | |
Dzongkha or Bhutanese (རྫོང་ཁ་, [dzoŋkʰa]), is the national language of Bhutan.
References
- ↑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.