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Language code: dzo

Technical information about ISO 639 language code dzo

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The table below provides technical details for the Dzongkha language, designated by the dzo code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

dzo

Name

Official

Dzongkha

Native

རྫོང་ཁ

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Ngalop (Standard Western Dzongkha)HaaKurichuPunakhaThimphuLayaLingshiWang
Related languages
Central TibetanSikkimeseSherpaBumthangKheng
Key facts
The name Dzongkha literally means “language of the fortress-monastery”The language uses the Tibetan U-chen script, preserving silent consonants that reflect Classical Tibetan etymologyDzongkha is tonal, with two contrastive tones that can change lexical meaningIt distinguishes plain, honorific and super-honorific lexical registers rather than using inflection for politenessThe first full descriptive grammar of Dzongkha was published only in 1998, so it is comparatively newly documented.
Sample phrase

ཀུ་སུ་བཟང་པོ་ལ། ཁྱེད་རང་ག་བདེ་པོ་ཡོད་པས།

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Dzongkha language, identified by the code dzo, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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