page_title: Dzongkha
hierarchical_section_title: Dzongkha
caption_attribution_description: Jakar Dzong, Bhutan
context_page_description: Dzongkha, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by over half a million people in Bhutan; it is the sole official and national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan. The Tibetan alphabet is used to write Dzongkha.
  The word dzongkha means "the language of the palace"; dzong means "palace" and kha is language. As of 2013, Dzongkha had 171,080 native speakers and about 640,000 total speakers.
context_section_description: Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་, [dzoŋkʰa]), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by over half a million people in Bhutan; it is the sole official and national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan. The Tibetan alphabet is used to write Dzongkha.
  The word dzongkha means "the language of the palace"; dzong means "palace" and kha is language. As of 2013, Dzongkha had 171,080 native speakers and about 640,000 total speakers.
caption: Jakar Dzong, representative of the distinct dzong architecture from which Dzongkha gets its name
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