Dzongkha

See also: dzongkha

English

Etymology

From Dzongkha རྫོང་ཁ (rdzong kha), from རྫོང (rdzong, “jong”) +‎ ཁ (kha, “language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdzɒŋkə/, /ˈzɒŋkə/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋkə
• Hyphenation: Dzong‧kha

Proper noun

Dzongkha

1. The national language of Bhutan; Bhutanese.

Translations

national language of Bhutan

• Assamese: ভূটীয়া (bhutia), জং ভাষা (zoṅ bhaxa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宗卡語, 宗卡语 (Zōngkǎyǔ)

• Dzongkha: རྫོང་ཁ (rdzong kha)
• Finnish: dzongkha (fi)
• French: dzongkha (fr) m
• Galician: dzongkha, zoncá
• German: Dzongkha (de) n
• Irish: Seoinicis f
• Japanese: ゾンカ語 (ja) (Zonka-go)
• Korean: 종카어 (ko) (Jongka'eo)
• Persian: دزونگخا‎
• Portuguese: zoncá (pt) m, butanês (pt) m
• Russian: дзонг-кэ́ (ru) m (dzong-kɛ́)
• Spanish: dzongkha m, butanés (es) m
• Tibetan: འབྲུག་སྐད ('brug skad)

References

• George van Driem; Karma Tshering of Gaselô (collab) (1998) Dzongkha (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region), Leiden: Research School CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies, →ISBN

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code dz, ISO 639-3 code dzo (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Dzongkha, dzo (behind paywall)

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German

Proper noun

Dzongkha n (proper noun, strong, genitive Dzongkha or Dzongkhas)

1. Dzongkha (a language of Bhutan)