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Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་; 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.Bhutani a dialect of the Balochi language spoken by the people of the Bhutani (Urdu: بھوتانی‎) tribe is completely unrelated to Dzongkha.

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ISO 639-1 code
dz
ISO 639-2 code
dzo
family
Tibetic languages, Bodish languages, Tibeto-Kanauri languages, Tibeto-Burman languages
language regulator or academy
Dzongkha Development Commission
spoken in
Bhutan, Sikkim

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