Dzongkha

See also: dzongkha

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Dzongkha

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)
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
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

Ethnologue entry for Dzongkha, dz

German

Noun

Dzongkha n

language of Bhutan; Dzongkha

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