Districts of Bhutan in which the Dzongkha language is spoken natively are highlighted in yellow.
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Jakar Dzong, representative of the distinct dzong architecture from which Dzongkha gets its name
Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་; [d͡zòŋkʰɑ́]) is a Sino-Tibetan 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". As of 2013[update], Dzongkha had 171,080 native speakers and about 640,000 total speakers.[2]
Dzongkha is a South Tibetic language. It is closely related to and partially intelligible with Sikkimese, and to some other Bhutanese languages such as Chocha Ngacha, Brokpa, Brokkat and Lakha. It has a more distant relationship to Standard Tibetan. Spoken Dzongkha and Tibetan are around 50 to 80 percent mutually intelligible.
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^ ab"How many people speak Dzongkha?". languagecomparison.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
^"Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan. Art. 1, § 8" (PDF). Government of Bhutan. 2008-07-18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
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