Sikkimese language
Appearance
Sikkimese | |
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Drenjongke | |
འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་ 'bras ljongs skad | |
Region | Sikkim, Nepal (Mechi Zone), Bhutan |
Ethnicity | Sikkimese |
Native speakers | 70,000 (2001)[1] |
Tibetan script | |
Official status | |
Official language in | India |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sip |
Glottolog | sikk1242 |
Sikkimese (འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་) is a Tibetic languages spoken by the Sikkimese people in Sikkim, India, and northeast Nepal. The Sikkimese people call their language Dranjongke meaning "Rice Valley language" and they call their homeland Denzong meaning "Rice Valley".[2][3] Other names for the language are Bhotia, Dranjoke, Denjongka, Denzongpeke, and Denzongke.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Sikkimese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). "Sikkimese". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16 ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ↑ "Lost Syllables and Tone Contour in Dzongkha (Bhutan)" in David Bradley, Eguénie J.A. Henderson and Martine Mazaudon, eds, Prosodic analysis and Asian linguistics: to honour R. K. Sprigg, 115-136; Pacific Linguistics, C-104, 1988