Dzongkha essay about bhutan

Explanations are provided of grammati- 6 Some Dzongkha proverbs 430 cal features and meanings which differ from those found in lan- 7 Exercises to Chapter Eight 437 guages with which the reader is likely to be familiar.

Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan the various languages of Bhutan. Dzongkha is officially the national language of the kingdom of Central Bodish languages Bhutan. It is the native language of eight of the twenty districts of ~ ~ ~ Dzongkha 160,000 speakers Bhutan, viz.l:j5.1':1~· Thimphu, ~·~·rz:r· Ptinakha]

Although Bhutan has roughly the same surface area as the Netherlands, the population of the Himalayan kingdom is approxi- mately just 650,000 inhabitants. There is no absolute majority lan- guage. Most of the languages of Bhutan belong to two genetic groups, i.e. Central Bodish and East Bodish.

Afterwards Bhutanese friends and colleagues recommended that the grammar and exercise book be integrated into a single volume and published outside Bhutan, as the market for a Dzongkha course written in English primarily lay overseas, and distribution could be handled more ef- fectively by a foreign publisher.