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Bhutia (Tibetan: འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་, Wylie: 'bras ljongs skad, THL: dren jong ké, Tibetan pronunciation: [ɖɛ̀n dʑòŋ ké]; "rice valley language") [2] is a language of the Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Bhutia people in Sikkim in northeast India, parts of Koshi province in eastern Nepal, and Bhutan. It is ...
The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system, or abugida, derived from Brahmic scripts and Gupta script, and used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti.
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The language spoken by the Bhutias of Sikkim is Drejongke, a Tibetic language which has a lexical similarity of 65% with Dzongkha, the language of Bhutan. By comparison, Drejongke is only 42% lexically similar with Standard Tibetan. Sikkimese has also been influenced to some degree by the neighboring Yolmo and Tamang languages.
Sherpa (also Sharpa, Sherwa, or Xiaerba) is a Tibetic language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa.The majority speakers of the Sherpa language live in the Khumbu region of Nepal, spanning from the Chinese (Tibetan) border in the east to the Bhotekosi River in the west. [3]
Denjongke or Sikkimese is a language indigenous to sikkim, Denjongke itself means language of sikkim. The language has been called sikkimese for a long time, more importantly, it is still called sikkimese within the community. When government websites still refer to our language as Sikkimese(bhutia), I don't see how any person would find the ...
Sikkimese may refer to: Relating to the Indian state of Sikkim; Sikkimese language, one of the Southern Tibetic languages; Sikkimese people, the Indian peoples who inhabit the Indian state of Sikkim; Native Sikkimese, the indigenous peoples of Sikkim