Dzongkha
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| 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] |
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. | |
Dzongkha or Bhutanese (རྫོང་ཁ་, [dzoŋkʰa]), is the national language of Bhutan.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 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
