རྫོང་ཁ

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རྫོང་ཁ is the Tibetan script name for Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family.

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རྫོང་ཁ canonical 1

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Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sino-Tibetan language
Tibeto-Burman language
language
national language
belongsToMacrolanguageGroup Tibetic macrolanguage
closelyRelatedTo Sherpa language
Sikkimese
Tibetan
surface form: Standard Tibetan
country Bhutan
derivedFromScript classical Tibetan script
hasAlternativeName Dzongkha
surface form: Bhutanese (language)
hasDialects Haa dialect
Laya dialect
Punakha-Wangdue dialect
hasEndonym རྫོང་ཁ
hasExonym Dzongkha
hasGlottocode dzon1239
hasNameInLatinScript Dzongkha
hasOfficialStatus national language of Bhutan
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
tone language
hasRole lingua franca of Bhutan
hasStandardForm Dzongkha
surface form: Standard Dzongkha
ISO639-1Code dz
ISO639-2Code dzo
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
Tibeto-Burman languages
officialLanguageOf Bhutan
primaryRegion eastern Bhutan (as lingua franca)
south-central Bhutan
western Bhutan
regulatingBody Dzongkha Development Commission
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Bhutan
India
Nepal
subgroup Tibetic languages
usedAsMediumOfInstruction schools in Bhutan
usedFor education in Bhutan
government administration in Bhutan
media in Bhutan
religious texts (modern Bhutanese context)
usesScript Tibetan script
writingSystem Tibetan script
writingSystemType abugida

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dzongkha hasNativeName རྫོང་ཁ