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Preferred term

dzoDzongkha  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Dzongkha (; Wylie: rdzong-kha, Jong-kă), occasionally Ngalopkha, is the national language of Bhutan. The word "dzongkha" means the language (kha) spoken in the dzong, – dzong being the fortress-like monasteries established throughout Bhutan by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in the 17th century.

ISO 639-1 code

  • dz

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • dzo

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • dzo

ISO 639-3 code

  • dzo

Notation

  • dzo

In other languages

  • Dzongkha

    French

  • dzongkha
  • Dzongkha

    German

  • Bhutanisch
  • dzongkha

    Italian

  • Lingua dzongkha
  • Portuguese

  • Língua butanesa
  • dzongkha

    Spanish

  • Idioma dzongkha

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/dzo

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