Dzongkha
Dzongkha or Bhutanese (རྫོང་ཁ་ [dzoŋ'kʰa]), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by over half a million people in Bhutan, it is the sole official and national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan. The Tibetan alphabet is used to write Dzongkha. The word dzongkha means, "the language of the fortresses", where kha is language and dzong is "fortresses"—the fortress-like dzong architecture characterises monasteries established throughout Bhutan by its unifier, Ngawang Namgyal, 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche, in the 17th century. As of 2013, Dzongkha had 171,080 native speakers and about 640,000 total speakers.
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Dzongkha
Dzongkha or Bhutanese (རྫོང་ཁ་ [dzoŋ'kʰa]), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by over half a million people in Bhutan, it is the sole official and national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan. The Tibetan alphabet is used to write Dzongkha. The word dzongkha means, "the language of the fortresses", where kha is language and dzong is "fortresses"—the fortress-like dzong architecture characterises monasteries established throughout Bhutan by its unifier, Ngawang Namgyal, 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche, in the 17th century. As of 2013, Dzongkha had 171,080 native speakers and about 640,000 total speakers.
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Dzongkha (tibetische Schreibwe ...... betischer Schrift geschrieben.
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Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་; Wylie: rdzo ...... O 639-2: dzo
* SIL-code: DZO
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Dzongkha or Bhutanese (རྫོང་ཁ་ ...... about 640,000 total speakers.
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Dzongkha རྯོང༌ཁ༌ (transliterac ...... ałych w Bhutanie w XVII wieku.
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El dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་) o butané ...... localizados al oeste del país.
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La lingua dzongkha (in tibetan ...... utan, dove è lingua ufficiale.
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Le dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་) est le d ...... emière moitié du XVIIe siècle.
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O butanês ou dzonga (རྫོང་ཁ་, ...... gawang Namgyel no século XVII.
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Дзонг-кэ (дзонгкха; дзонг-кэ ར ...... всех школах Королевства Бутан.
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دزونكا هي اللغة المتحدثة في بوتان
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Dzongkha–Lhokä
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Nuclear Dzongkhic
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The word "Dzongkha" in Tibetan alphabet
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Districts of Bhutan in which t ...... re highlighted in light beige.
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Dzongkha (tibetische Schreibwe ...... betischer Schrift geschrieben.
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Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་; Wylie: rdzo ...... O 639-2: dzo
* SIL-code: DZO
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Dzongkha or Bhutanese (རྫོང་ཁ་ ...... about 640,000 total speakers.
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Dzongkha རྯོང༌ཁ༌ (transliterac ...... dialekt języka tybetańskiego.
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El dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་) o butané ...... localizados al oeste del país.
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La lingua dzongkha (in tibetan ...... utan, dove è lingua ufficiale.
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Le dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་) est le d ...... emière moitié du XVIIe siècle.
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O butanês ou dzonga (རྫོང་ཁ་, ...... gawang Namgyel no século XVII.
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Дзонг-кэ (дзонгкха; дзонг-кэ ར ...... ре наиболее близок тибетскому.
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دزونكا هي اللغة المتحدثة في بوتان
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Dzongkha
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Dzongkha
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Dzongkha
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Dzongkha
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Dzongkha
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Idioma dzongkha
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Lingua dzongkha
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Língua butanesa
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Дзонг-кэ
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لغة دزونكا
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