Dzongkha

E79075

Dzongkha is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily in Bhutan, where it serves as the national and administrative language.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Dzongkha language 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bhutanese language
Sino-Tibetan language
language
national language
administrativeLanguageOf Bhutan
closelyRelatedTo Sherpa language
Sikkimese
Tibetan
countryWithLargestSpeakers Bhutan
hasAlternativeName Bhutanese people
surface form: Bhutanese
hasAlternativeTransliteration Dzong-Ka
hasGlottocode dzon1234
hasMorphologicalType analytic
hasNativeName རྫོང་ཁ
hasOfficialStatus de jure national language
de jure working language
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated consonants
complex consonant clusters
tone
hasWordOrder SOV
ISO639-1Code dz
ISO639-2Code dzo
ISO639-3Code dzo
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
surface form: Sino-Tibetan
nationalLanguageOf Bhutan
officialLanguageOf Bhutan
primaryRegion Bhutan
primaryScriptVariant Uchen
regulatingBody Dzongkha Development Commission
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Bhutan
India
Nepal
standardFormBasedIn western Bhutan dialects
subfamily Tibeto-Burman
usedFor legislation in Bhutan
official documents in Bhutan
school instruction in Bhutan
usedInEducationLevel primary education in Bhutan
secondary education in Bhutan
usedInGovernment Bhutanese government administration
usedInMedia Bhutanese print media
Bhutanese radio broadcasting
Bhutanese television broadcasting
usedInReligion Buddhist contexts in Bhutan
usesAlphabet Tibetan script
surface form: Tibetan alphabet
writingSystem Tibetan script
writingSystemType abugida

Referenced by (13)

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

Ngalop language Dzongkha
Drangme Chhu languageOfName Dzongkha
Druk Gyalpo languageOfName Dzongkha
Dragon King languageOfTitle Dzongkha
Bhutan nationalLanguage Dzongkha
Dragon King nativeLanguage Dzongkha
Bhutan officialLanguage Dzongkha
Thimphu officialLanguage Dzongkha
Ngalop primaryLanguage Dzongkha
Tibetan script usedFor Dzongkha
this entity surface form: Dzongkha language