The Sound of the Bhutanese / Dzongkha language (Numbers, Greetings & Story)

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Dzongkha / Bhutanese (རྫོང་ཁ་)
Native to: Bhutan
Ethnicity: Bhutanese
Native speakers: 171,080 (2013)
Total speakers: 640,000
Language family: Sino-Tibetan

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.[4] The Tibetan alphabet is used to write Dzongkha.

The word dzongkha means "the language of the palace"; dzong means "palace" and kha is language. As of 2013, Dzongkha had 171,080 native speakers and about 640,000 total speakers.

Dzongkha and its dialects are the native tongue of eight western districts of Bhutan (viz. Wangdue Phodrang, Punakha, Thimphu, Gasa, Paro, Ha, Dagana and Chukha). There are also some native speakers near the Indian town of Kalimpong, once part of Bhutan but now in North Bengal.

Dzongkha was declared the national language of Bhutan in 1971. Dzongkha study is mandatory in all schools, and the language is the lingua franca in the districts to the south and east where it is not the mother tongue. The 2003 Bhutanese film Travellers and Magicians is in Dzongkha.

Music:    • Dramnyen Choepa (Bhutanese Guitar)  

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