Sikkimese language

Sikkimese
Sikkimese
Drenjongke; Page Template:Bo-textonly/fonts.css has no content.འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་; 'bras ljongs skad
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Region	Sikkim, Nepal (Mechi Zone), Bhutan
Ethnicity	Sikkimese
Native speakers	70,000 (2001)e18
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic Dzongkha–Lhokä Sikkimese; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Tibetan script
Official status
Official language in	India Sikkim;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sip
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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".^[1]^[2] Other names for the language are Bhotia, Dranjoke, Denjongka, Denzongpeke, and Denzongke.

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References

↑ 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

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[SIL-1] Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). "Sikkimese". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16 ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 2011-04-16.

[2] "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

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