Dzongkha (Jong-kă) is the national language of the
Kingdom of Bhutan. The word "dzongkha" means the language (kha, jong) spoken in the dzong (jong),
dzong being the fortress-like monasteries established throughout Bhutan by
Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel in the 17th century. Dzongkha bears a linguistic relationship to modern
Tibetan as that existing in latin languages between themselves. The modern language pairs have lost mutual comprehensibility but they share a common ancestor language which is still used in liturgical contexts. Whereas religious scholars in
Castile,
Portugal,
France,
Catalonia,
Italy, etc. study
Latin, the religious language of
Roman Catholicism, monks in
Tibet and Bhutan study Old Tibetan, the sacred language of
Tibetan Buddhism. In Bhutan this preserved sacred language is referred to as Chöke (ཆོས་སྐད་).
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