#dzongkha

[godlymiseryclub]

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been healing my body lately. all-goat cheese to heal my qi thru the zang of the spleen. waking up early for that with the monkeys in the zodiac.

weed and tobacco to connect me to my equally important Native American ancestors.

blessed be my faith ancestors, my medicine ancestors, and my land ancestors. may all be blessed for vesak.

[gregor-samsung]

ལུང་ནག་ན [Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom] (Pawo Choyning Dorji, 2019)

[gwendolynlerman]

Languages of the world

Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་)

Basic facts

Number of native speakers: 171,000

Official language: Bhutan

Also spoken: India, Nepal

Script: Tibetan, 34 letters

Grammatical cases: 5

Linguistic typology: fusional, SOV

Language family: Sino-Tibetan, Bodish, Tibetic, Dzongkha-Lhokä

Number of dialects: 3

History

7th century - introduction of the Tibetan alphabet

1971 - Dzongkha is declared the national language of Bhutan

Writing system and pronunciation

These are the letters that make up the script: ཀ ཁ ག ང ཅ ཆ ཇ ཉ ཏ ཐ ད ན པ ཕ བ མ ཙ ཚ ཛ ཝ ཞ ཟ འ ཡ ར ལ ཤ ཧ ཨ ཨི ཨུ ཨེ ཨོ.

Dzongkha has two tones: high and low.

Grammar

Nouns have two numbers (singular and plural) and five cases (genitive, locative, ablative, dative, and ergative). The plural marker is used to show that there are many of something and is not mandatory.

There are two numeral systems, one of them is base 10 and the other is base 20.

Verbs are conjugated for tense, mood, aspect, evidentiality, person, and number. There is a tense that indicates that the speaker has witnessed the action themselves.

Dialects

There are three dialects: Lingzhi, Hâ, Wang, and Thê.

[galactic-empress]

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom is very good, and so emotional. Def recommend.

[letsstudybuddy]

I’ve started learning Scottish Gaelic on Mango Languages and the way it teaches languages is better than most other sites. It’s is usually a subscription service (unless a local library or institution offers free access), but you can learn 5 endangered languages for free! They believe in the importance of saving and preserving languages which could otherwise die out. 

The colour coding system is especially helpful for getting to grips with new sentence structures, and you can switch between a literal translation and the understood meaning . There are also helpful grammar notes!

[lingcharts]

Numbers in Some (More!) Languages of South Asia.
(Note: Sources for Dzongkha and Dhivehi, written in their respective scripts, are pretty limited for English. If you are aware of any sources that provide the script version of these numbers - in cardinal form, not numeral - please let me know.) 


Sinhalese, written in Sinhala script, is an Indo-Aryan language (from the Indo-European language family) and is the most widely spoken language in Sri Lanka.


Nepali is the main language of Nepal, and uses the Devanagari script (shared with many languages in South Asia, including Hindi). It is also an Indo-Aryan language, in the Eastern Pahari sub-branch. 


Dzongkha is a Sino-Tibetan language written in the Tibetan alphabet and the official language of Bhutan.


Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken on the Western side of South India written in Malayalam script. 


Assamese, written in the Assamese script, is arguably the Easternmost Indo-European language and serves as a lingua franca in linguistically diverse Northeastern India. 


Dhivehi, the main language of the Maldives, is an Indo-Aryan language that uses the Thaana script. 


Kannada is another Dravidian language, spoken just North of the Malayalam speaking area and Northeast of Tamil speaking area in South India. It is written in the Kannada script.


Note: spellings and pronunciations may differ regionally or by dialect.

[ayearinlanguage]

A Year in Language, day 154: Dzongkha Dzongkha is a Sino-Tibetan language, the family of the Chinese languages and, you guessed it, Tibetan. It is the official language of Bhutan, a small country between India and Tibet and, as such, is also known as Bhutanese. Like most Sino-Tibetan languages, Dzongkha is generally isolating in grammar (sparing use of inflection) and has a largely monosyllabic lexicon. Also like the rest of it's family it has restrictive phonotactics, aka. phonetic syllable structure, that restrict most syllables to consisting of one consonant followed by one vowel and possibly one final consonant. Compared to most of the worlds languages Dzongkha is restrictive in what consonants are allowed to be syllable final, though compared to most Chinese and other East Asian languages it is practically a free for all; Dzongkha allows 5-8 different consonants, depending on dialect and register. Mandarin by comparison allows 2, both of which are nasals. Dzongkha is written using Tibetan script, which places it in the Brahmi family that encompasses most of South and Southeast Asia. Though the numbers below twenty are base ten, above twenty it uses a base twenty (vigesimal) counting system, similar to French. The language is named for the Dzong ("district") architecture for which Bhutan is famous

[shadyfacewolf]

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El fantástico Max (c) Mike Young y Hanna-Barbera

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