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Although descended from Classical Tibetan, Dzongkha shows a great many irregularities in sound changes that make the official spelling and standard pronunciation more distant from each other than is the case with Standard Tibetan. "Traditional orthography and modern phonology are two distinct systems
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Mazaudon, Martine. 1985. "Dzongkha Number Systems." S. Ratanakul, D. Thomas & S. Premsirat (eds.). Southeast Asian Linguistic Studies presented to André-G. Haudricourt. Bangkok: Mahidol University.
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There are various systems of romanization and transliteration for Dzongkha, but none accurately represents its phonetic sound. The Bhutanese government adopted a transcription system known as
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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
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Michailovsky, Boyd; Mazaudon, Martine (1989). "Lost syllables and tone contour in Dzongkha (Bhutan)". In Bradley, David; Henderson, E. J. A.; Mazaudon, Martine (eds.).
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Tournadre, Nicolas (1996). "Comparaison des systèmes médiatifs de quatre dialectes tibétains (tibétain central, ladakhi, dzongkha et amdo)". In Guentchéva, Z. (ed.).
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Dzongkha was declared the national language of Bhutan in 1971. Dzongkha study is mandatory in all schools, and the language is the
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Michailovsky, Boyd (1989). "Notes on Dzongkha orthography". In Bradley, David; Henderson, E. J. A.; Mazaudon, Martine (eds.).
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Traditional orthography and modern phonology are two distinct systems operating by a distinct set of rules.
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Report on the current status of the United Nations romanization systems for geographical names: Dzongkha
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Report on the current status of the United Nations romanization systems for geographical names: Tibetan
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is also found in syllable-final positions. No other consonants are found in syllable-final positions.
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A colloquial grammar of the Bhutanese language. by Byrne, St. Quintin. Allahabad: Pioneer Press, 1909
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is most often omitted when word-final as well, unless in formal speech. In literary pronunciation,
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Districts of Bhutan in which the Dzongkha language is spoken natively are highlighted in yellow.
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in the districts to the south and east where it is not the mother tongue. The Bhutanese films
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All consonants may begin a syllable. In the onsets of low-tone syllables, consonants are
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Only a few consonants are found in syllable-final positions. Most common among them are
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Dzongkha and its dialects are the native tongue of eight western districts of Bhutan (
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Dzongkha bears a close linguistic relationship to J'umowa, which is spoken in the
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Bhutan National Policy and Strategy for Development and Promotion of Dzongkha
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indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches.
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A grammar of Dzongkha (dzo): phonology, words, and simple clauses
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The word "Dzongkha" in Jôyi, a Bhutanese form of the Uchen script
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Syllabicity and suprasegmentals: the Dzongkha monosyllabic noun
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Kartshok Threngwa: A Book on Dzongkha Synonyms & Antonyms (
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The following is a sample text in Dzongkha of Article 1 of the
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Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics: To Honour R.K. Sprigg
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Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics: To Honour R.K. Sprigg
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English-Dzongkha Dictionary (ཨིང་ལིཤ་རྫོང་ཁ་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག་མཛོད།)
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Issues in Dzongkha Phonology: An Optimality Theoretic Approach
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Kartshok Threngwa: A Book on Dzongkha Synonyms & Antonyms
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The New Dzongkha Grammar (rdzong kha'i brda gzhung gsar pa)
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Rigpai Lodap: An Intermediate Dzongkha-English Dictionary (
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
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Rigpai Lodap: An Intermediate Dzongkha-English Dictionary
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and has two register tones: high and low. The tone of a
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Dzongkha Rabsel Lamzang (rdzong kha rab gsal lam bzang)
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When nasalized or followed by , vowels are always long.
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and prolonged, especially word-finally. Syllable-final
2941:(3rd ed.). Santa Barbara: Himalayan Linguistics. 1726: 1706: 1686: 1666: 1646: 1626: 525: 515: 508: 2933:– A language textbook with three audio compact disks. 2504:རྫོང་ཁའི་མིང་ཚིག་རྣམ་གྲངས་དང་འགལ་མིང་སྐར་ཚོགས་ཕྲེང་བ། 2281: 714:"formal longhand". The print form is known simply as 4150: 2626: 2618: 2334: 2275: 2259: 2257: 2255: 2253: 2251: 2249: 2247: 2185: 2076:"Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan. Art. 1, § 8" 1972: 2668:. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 297–301. 2631:. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 115–136. 2245: 2243: 2241: 2239: 2237: 2235: 2233: 2231: 2229: 2227: 3051:Online searchable dictionary (Dz-En, En-Dz, Dz-Dz) 2081:. Government of Bhutan. 2008-07-18. Archived from 2473:འབྲིང་རིམ་རྫོང་ཁ་ཨིང་ལིཤ་ཚིག་མཛོད་རིག་པའི་ལོ་འདབ། 5164: 2899:(Doctor of Philosophy thesis). Rice University. 2835:Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages 2577:Manual of Spoken Dzongkha in Roman Transcription 2312:Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages 2224: 1529:, and to some other Bhutanese languages such as 1097:are not found in low-tone syllables. The rhotic 550:, and to some other Bhutanese languages such as 1388:, the latter being common in closed syllables. 3962: 3409: 2619:Mazaudon, Martine; Michailovsky, Boyd (1986), 2377:. Leiden: Research School, CNWS. p. 110. 592: 496:that is the official and national language of 4871: 4136: 3279: 3193:Dzongkha language, alphabet and pronunciation 2888:(Masters thesis). Arlington: UT at Arlington. 2156:. Leiden: Research School, CNWS. p. 47. 1556:. It has a much more distant relationship to 3823: 3220:Pioneering Dzongkha Text To Speech Synthesis 2995:Dzongkha Romanization for Geographical Names 2917:; Karma Tshering of Gaselô (collab) (1998). 2663: 2512:. Thimphu: Dzongkha Development Commission. 2481:. Thimphu: Dzongkha Development Commission. 3107:Names of Countries and Capitals in Dzongkha 2937:Karma Tshering; Van Driem, George (2019) . 2583: 2558:. Thimphu: Dzongkha Development Commission. 2546:. Thimphu: Dzongkha Development Commission. 1317:When in low tone, vowels are produced with 513:means "the language of the fortress", from 4878: 4864: 4143: 4129: 3286: 3272: 2886:A preliminary study of prosody in Dzongkha 394: 100: 3293: 3165:Dzongkha, The National Language of Bhutan 2946: 2904: 2857: 2827: 2794: 2776: 2745: 2721: 2700: 2681: 2644: 2605: 2304: 2292: 2218: 2140: 2594:Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2366: 694:used to write Dzongkha has thirty basic 681: 566:. It has a more distant relationship to 463: 4885: 2892: 2883: 2728:Guide to Official Dzongkha Romanization 2563:Dzongkha Development Authority (2005). 1580:operating by a distinct set of rules." 706:, forms of the Tibetan script known as 419:question marks, boxes, or other symbols 14: 5165: 3235:Dzongkha Grammar & other materials 3188:Dzongkha : Origin and Description 2571: 2145: 1588:The following is a sample vocabulary: 1475:is slightly lower than open-mid, i.e. 1173:may also end a syllable. Though rare, 487: 27:Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Bhutan 4902: 4859: 4124: 3267: 3256:Classical Tibetan-Dzongkha Dictionary 2863:The First Linguistic Survey of Bhutan 2443: 2400: 2372: 2263: 2151: 1760:Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1572:which has been used for centuries by 1412:more often in quality than in length. 698:, sometimes known as "radicals", for 2344:; Tshering of Gaselô, Karma (1998). 2109:; Tshering of Gaselô, Karma (1998). 1517:Classification and related languages 40: 5183:Languages written in Tibetan script 3240:The Dzongkha Development Commission 2068: 1154:and results in the preceding vowel 24: 3083:English-Dzongkha Pocket Dictionary 3055:Online Dzongkha-English Dictionary 2276:Michailovsky & Mazaudon (1989) 2023: 25: 5194: 4552:Lahuli–Spiti (Western Innovative) 2967: 2055:"How many people speak Dzongkha?" 1497:, especially in closed syllables. 1306: 1300: 1293: 1279: 1273: 1266: 1260: 1254: 1240: 1234: 1227: 1221: 1215: 1067: 1060: 1053: 1046: 1040: 1018: 998: 991: 948: 941: 889: 882: 875: 868: 847: 840: 833: 826: 659: 627:, once part of Bhutan but now in 475:from which Dzongkha gets its name 471:, representative of the distinct 4152:Bodic (Tibeto-Kanauri) languages 3486: 1975: 1457:especially in closed syllables. 546:and partially intelligible with 437: 281: 45: 4514:Ladakhi–Balti (Western Archaic) 3115:A Guide to Dzongkha-Translation 3060:Dzongkha Development Commission 3044: 3004:Dzongkha Development Commission 3000:Free textbooks and dictionaries 2979:Dzongkha Development Commission 2552:Dzongkha Development Commission 2540:Dzongkha Development Commission 2497:Dzongkha Development Commission 2466:Dzongkha Development Commission 2436: 2414: 2394: 2298: 1504: 1344:, the latter being more common. 721: 301:Dzongkha Development Commission 3026:The National Library of Bhutan 2786:. SOAS, London. Archived from 2170: 2099: 1753: 1085:(indicated by the superscript 653:Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom 593: 71:Proposed since September 2024. 13: 1: 2016: 1583: 1568:language, known in Bhutan as 766: 3123: 2893:Watters, Stephen A. (2018). 2884:Watters, Stephen A. (1996). 2607:10.24467/onseikenkyu.22.1_13 1449:, but may approach open-mid 737: 7: 2985:Dzongkha-English Dictionary 2444:Downs, Cheryl Lynn (2011). 1968: 1953: 1945: 1937: 1929: 1921: 1913: 1905: 1897: 1889: 1881: 1873: 1865: 1857: 1849: 1841: 1833: 1825: 1817: 1809: 1801: 1793: 1785: 1777: 1769: 1727: 1707: 1687: 1667: 1647: 1627: 1509:Many words in Dzongkha are 763:type of the nuclear vowel. 734:, as its standard in 1991. 538:. It is closely related to 526: 516: 509: 54:It has been suggested that 10: 5199: 3147:National Library of Bhutan 2373:Driem, George van (1998). 2152:Driem, George van (1998). 1746: 1742: 730:, devised by the linguist 663: 500:. It is written using the 29: 5139: 5121: 5091: 5045: 5028: 4973: 4911: 4893: 4833: 4810: 4774: 4765: 4745: 4683: 4667: 4660: 4613: 4592: 4550: 4512: 4505: 4439: 4388: 4357: 4339:Central Tibetan (Ü-Tsang) 4331: 4322: 4313: 4267: 4234: 4227: 4202: 4176: 4169: 4158: 4108: 4053: 4005: 3890: 3731: 3699: 3657: 3592: 3495: 3484: 3302: 2819:: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( 2807:Zentralasiatische Studien 2783:Language policy in Bhutan 2768:: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( 2503: 2472: 1593: 1521:Dzongkha is considered a 1408:at all, and differs from 1372:varies between close-mid 1180: 1032: 1010: 983: 928: 857: 820: 781: 483: 405: 393: 379: 363: 347: 329: 311: 306: 294: 276:Official language in 274: 269: 249: 227: 199: 140: 128: 118: 108: 99: 93: 92: 87: 82: 3183:Romanization of Dzongkha 3135:Dzongkha transliteration 2704:L'énonciation médiatisée 2057:. languagecomparison.com 2011:Dzongkha keyboard layout 742: 656:(2019) are in Dzongkha. 647:Travellers and Magicians 577: 30:Not to be confused with 5147:Bhutanese Sign Language 3197:Dzongkha in Knowledge: 3075:Dzongkha Computer Terms 2974:Bhutanese literatures 2939:The Grammar of Dzongkha 2752:The Grammar of Dzongkha 2407:The Grammar of Dzongkha 2040:(subscription required) 1419:vary between close-mid 1404:may not be longer than 710:"cursive longhand" and 136:Total speakers: 640,000 2839:. 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Dzongkha language
Tsonga language
Dzongka
Dzongkha grammar
merged
Discuss

Bhutan
Ngalop people
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Kanauri
Bodish
Tibetic
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Old Tibetan
Classical Tibetan
Laya
Lunana
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Tibetan script
Dzongkha Braille
Bhutan
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Dzongkha Development Commission
ISO 639-1
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