Jonkha
Language Information
Jonkha (Dzongkha) is spoken in Bhutan, where it is the national language.
Dzongkha is a Tibetic language, closely related to Tibetan, with about 170,000 native speakers and many more who speak it as a second language. It is written in the Tibetan script. Its name means "language of the dzongs," the fortress-monasteries of Bhutan.
Dzongkha is a Tibetic language, closely related to Tibetan, with about 170,000 native speakers and many more who speak it as a second language. It is written in the Tibetan script. Its name means "language of the dzongs," the fortress-monasteries of Bhutan.
Jonkha is spoken/used in the following countries:
- Language Family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Subgroup
- Tibetic
Jonkha Language Sample
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1
Dzongkha
འགྲོ་བ་མི་ཚུ་ག་ར་དལ་དབང་གི་ཐོག་ལས་སྐྱེས་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ག་ར་ལུ་བརྩི་མཐོང་དང་ཐོབ་དབང་འདྲ་མཉམ་སྦེ་ཡོད། མི་ཚུ་ག་ར་སྨྲ་ཤེས་དོན་གོ་བའི་མཚན་ཉིད་དང་ལྡནམ་ལས་ ག་ར་གིས་ལཱ་ག་ཅི་ར་འབད་རུང་ གཅིག་གིས་གཅིག་ལུ་སྤུན་ཆའི་འདུ་ཤེས་བསྐྱེད་ཐོག་ལས་ལཱ་འབད་དགོ།English translation
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Source: OHCHR translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights