Sikkimese language

Sikkimese
Sikkimese
Drenjongke
འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་; 'bras ljongs skad
Region	Sikkim, Nepal (Mechi Zone), Bhutan
Ethnicity	Sikkimese
Native speakers	70,000 (2001)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic Dzongkha–Lhokä Sikkimese; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Tibetan script
Official status
Official language in	India Sikkim;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sip
Glottolog	sikk1242
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The Sikkimese language', also called Sikkimese Tibetan, Bhutia, Dranjongke (Tibetan: འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་, Wylie: bras-ljongs-skad "Rice District language"^[2]), Dranjoke, Denjongka, Denzongpeke, and Denzongke, belongs to the Tibetic languages. It is spoken by the Bhutia people in Sikkim and northeast Nepal. The Sikkimese people call their language Dranjongke. They call their homeland Denzong ("Rice Valley").^[3]

References[change | change source]

↑ Sikkimese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ "Lost Syllables and Tone Contour in Dzongkha (Bhutan)" in David Bradley, Eguénie J.A. Henderson and Martine Mazaudon, eds, Prosodic analysis and Asian linguistics: to honour R. K. Sprigg, 115-136; Pacific Linguistics, C-104, 1988
↑ Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). "Sikkimese". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16 ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 2011-04-16.

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[e18-1] Sikkimese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] "Lost Syllables and Tone Contour in Dzongkha (Bhutan)" in David Bradley, Eguénie J.A. Henderson and Martine Mazaudon, eds, Prosodic analysis and Asian linguistics: to honour R. K. Sprigg, 115-136; Pacific Linguistics, C-104, 1988

[SIL-3] Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). "Sikkimese". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16 ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 2011-04-16.

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