Language · Sino-Tibetan
Dzongkha
རྫོང་ཁ – its own name
Official or co-official in 1 country. Listed in 2 countries.
Endangerment: threatened according to Glottolog (AES, CC BY 4.0)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 419 thousand
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Tibetan
Place in the family tree
- Sino-Tibetan
- Bodic (Tibetic)
- Bodish
- Early Old Tibetan
- Middle Old Tibetan
- Late Old Tibetan
- Southern Tibetic
- Dzongkhic
- Nuclear Dzongkhic
- Dzongkha
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Official 1
- Minority 1
Official
- Bhutan 47% 416 thousand
Minority
- India <0.1% 2.8 thousand