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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 ...
Bhutia aristocrats were called Kazis after similar landlord titles in neighboring regions, especially in modern-day Bangladesh. This feudal system was an integral part of the Chogyal monarchy prior to 1975, when Sikkim was an independent monarchy; the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Sikkim before the mid-1970s plebiscite was the Bhutia Namgyal ...
Dzongkha is a Central Bodish language [2] with approximately 160,000 native speakers as of 2006. [3] It is the dominant language in Western Bhutan, where most native speakers are found. It was declared the national language of Bhutan in 1971. [4] Dzongkha study is mandatory in schools, and the majority of the population speaks it as a second ...
Bhutia, Sherpa, Ladakhis, Tibetan, Uttarakhand Bhotiya, Ngalop, Tshangla people A senior official in Sikkim , ethnic Bhotiya, 1938 Bhotiya or Bhot ( Nepali : भोटिया , Bhotiyā ) is an Indian and Nepali exonym lumping together various ethnic groups speaking Tibetic languages , as well as some groups speaking other Tibeto-Burman ...
Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་; [d͡zòŋkʰɑ́]) is a Tibeto-Burman language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. [3] It is written using the Tibetan script. The word dzongkha means "the language of the fortress", from dzong "fortress" and kha "language".
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The official languages of the state are Nepali, Bhutia, Lepcha and English. Additional official languages include Gurung, Limbu, Magar, Sunuwar, Newar, Rai, Sherpa and Tamang for the purpose of preservation of culture and tradition in the state. Nepali is the lingua franca of Sikkim, while Sikkimese (Bhutia) and Lepcha are spoken in certain ...
Bhutani language, a misnomer for several languages: Bhotia language or Sherpa language; Bhutia language or Sikkimese language; Dzongkha, the official language of Bhutan; conceivably any language of Bhutan; apparently also a certain dialect of the Balochi language; Bhutanese people, the people of Bhutan; Bhutani Pony, a breed of pony