Tags: Ethnic Group.

For the Bhutia pony see Indian Country Bred. For Indian soccer player see Baichung Bhutia.The Bhutia (in Sikkim: Denzongpa; Tibetan: འབྲས་ལྗོངས་པ་ Wylie: ‘Bras-ljongs-pa; inhabitants of Denzong; in Bhutan: Dukpa) are a community of people of Tibetan ancestry who speak Sikkimese a Tibetan dialect fairly mutually intelligible to standard Tibetan. In 2001 the Bhutia numbered around 70300.

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language
Nepali language, Tibetic languages, Dzongkha, Sikkimese language
population place
Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim
related
Bhotiya
religion
Buddhism, Bon
total population
70300

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