Back সিকিমি ভাষা Bengali/Bangla འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད། Tibetan Sikimeg Breton Sikkimès Catalan Sikkimština Czech Bhutia (iaith) Welsh Denjongka German Sikima lingvo Esperanto Idioma bhutia Spanish Sikkimin kieli Finnish
| Sikkimese | |
|---|---|
| Drenjongke | |
| འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་ bras ljongs skad | |
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| Region | Sikkim, Nepal (Koshi Province), and Bhutan |
| Ethnicity | Sikkimese |
Native speakers | 70,000 (2022)[1] |
| Tibetan script | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  India
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sip |
| Glottolog | sikk1242 |
The Sikkimese language, also called Sikkimese, Bhutia, or Drenjongké (Tibetan: འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་, Wylie: 'bras ljongs skad, THL: dren jong ké, "Rice Valley language"),[2] Dranjoke, Denjongka, Denzongpeke and Denzongke, belongs to the Tibeto-Burman languages. It is spoken by the Bhutia in Sikkim, India and in parts of Koshi, Nepal. It is the Official Language of Sikkim, India. The Sikkimese people refer to their own language as Drendzongké and their homeland as Drendzong (Tibetan: འབྲས་ལྗོངས་, Wylie: 'bras-ljongs, "Rice Valley").[3] Up until 1975 Sikkimese was not a written language. After gaining Indian Statehood the language was introduced as a school subject in Sikkim and the written language was developed.[4]
- ^ Sikkimese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "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
- ^ Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). "Sikkimese". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16 ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ Yliniemi, Juha Sakari (18 November 2021). "A descriptive grammar of Denjongke". Himalayan Linguistics. 20 (1). doi:10.5070/H920146466. ISSN 1544-7502. S2CID 244424106.