Dzongkha

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

from Dzongkha: language (kha) of dzongs (rdzong) < from Classical Tibetan: རྫོང (rdzong) fortress ཁ (kha) mouth

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdzɒŋkə/, /ˈzɒŋkə/
• Hyphenation: Dzong‧kha

Proper noun

Dzongkha

1. The national language of Bhutan
2. Bhutanese language

Translations

national language of Bhutan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宗卡語, 宗卡语 (Zōngkǎyǔ)

• Dzongkha: རྫོང་ཁ (rdzong kha)
• Galician: dzongkha, zoncá
• German: Dzongkha (de) n

• Irish: Seoinicis f
• Japanese: ゾンカ語 (Zonka-go)
• Korean: 종카어 (ko) (Jongka-eo)
• Persian: دزونگخا
• Russian: дзонг-кэ (ru) m (dzong-ke)

References

• 1998, George van Driem, Dzongkha, ISBN 90-5789-002-X:

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External links

• ISO 639-1 code dz, ISO 639-3 code dzo
• Ethnologue entry for Dzongkha, dz

German

Wikipedia ^de

Noun

Dzongkha n

1. language of Bhutan; Dzongkha