Sikkimese language
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| Sikkimese Dranjongke |
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| Spoken in: | Bhutan, India | |
| Total speakers: | 28,600 (1996). | |
| Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Sikkimese |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | sip | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Sikkimese (also known as Bhutia) is a sublanguage of South Tibetan (Bhutanese-Sikkimese, Lhoke) language. It is a minority language spoken by the Bhutia community in Northern Sikkim. Its own name is Dranjongke (Wylie: Bras-ljongs-skad).
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