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18-541: Sarpang District ( Dzongkha : གསར་སྤང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie : Gsar-spang rdzong-khag ; also known as "Geylegphug") is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan . Sarpang covers a total area of 1,946 km (751 sq mi) and stretches from Lhamoizhingkha in West Bhutan to Manas National Park in the east. Sarpang Dzongkhag is divided into one dungkhag , Gelephu, and 12 gewogs . The dominant language in Sarpang

36-544: A close linguistic relationship to J'umowa, which is spoken in the Chumbi Valley of Southern Tibet . It has a much more distant relationship to Standard Tibetan . Spoken Dzongkha and Tibetan are around 50% to 80% mutually intelligible, with the literary forms of both highly influenced by the liturgical (clerical) Classical Tibetan language, known in Bhutan as Chöke, which has been used for centuries by Buddhist monks . Chöke

54-638: A distinct set of rules." The following is a sample vocabulary: The following is a sample text in Dzongkha of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights : འགྲོ་ ’Gro- བ་ ba- མི་ mi- རིགས་ rigs- ག་ ga- ར་ ra- དབང་ dbaṅ- ཆ་ cha- འདྲ་ ’dra- མཏམ་ mtam- འབད་ ’bad- སྒྱེཝ་ sgyew- ལས་ las- ག་ ga- ར་ ra- གིས་ gis- གཅིག་ North Bengal North Bengal or Uttar Banga ( Bengali : উত্তরবঙ্গ /উত্তর বাংলা)

72-619: A more distant relationship to Standard Tibetan . Spoken Dzongkha and Tibetan are around 50 to 80 percent mutually intelligible . Dzongkha and its dialects are the native tongue of eight western districts of Bhutan ( viz. Wangdue Phodrang , Punakha , Thimphu , Gasa , Paro , Ha , Dagana and Chukha ). There are also some native speakers near the Indian town of Kalimpong , once part of Bhutan but now in North Bengal , and in Sikkim . Dzongkha

90-417: Is Nepali , an Indo-European language spoken by the heterogeneous Lhotshampa community. The East Bodish Kheng language is also spoken in the northeastern reaches of the district. Sarpang District is currently divided into twelve village blocks (or gewogs ): Much of Sarpang District consists of environmentally protected areas . Far western Sarpang District (the gewog of Senghe ) contains part of

108-618: Is a Tibeto-Burman language that is the official and national language of Bhutan . It is written using the Tibetan script . The word dzongkha means "the language of the fortress", from dzong "fortress" and kha "language". As of 2013 , Dzongkha had 171,080 native speakers and about 640,000 total speakers. Dzongkha is a South Tibetic language . It is closely related to Laya and Lunana and partially intelligible with Sikkimese , and to some other Bhutanese languages such as Chocha Ngacha , Brokpa , Brokkat and Lakha . It has

126-527: Is a term used for the north-western part of Bangladesh and northern part of West Bengal . The Bangladesh part denotes the Rajshahi Division and Rangpur Division . Generally, it is the area lying west of Jamuna River and north of Padma River and includes the Barind Tract . The West Bengal part denotes Jalpaiguri Division ( Alipurduar , Cooch Behar , Darjeeling , Jalpaiguri , and Kalimpong ) and

144-471: Is often elided and results in the preceding vowel nasalized and prolonged, especially word-finally. Syllable-final /k/ is most often omitted when word-final as well, unless in formal speech. In literary pronunciation, liquids /r/ and /l/ may also end a syllable. Though rare, /ɕ/ is also found in syllable-final positions. No other consonants are found in syllable-final positions. Many words in Dzongkha are monosyllabic . Syllables usually take

162-400: Is usually a trill [ r ] or a fricative trill [ r̝ ] , and is voiceless in the onsets of high-tone syllables. /t, tʰ, ts, tsʰ, s/ are dental . Descriptions of the palatal affricates and fricatives vary from alveolo-palatal to plain palatal. Only a few consonants are found in syllable-final positions. Most common among them are /m, n, p/ . Syllable-final /ŋ/

180-573: Is usually written in Bhutanese forms of the Uchen script , forms of the Tibetan script known as Jôyi "cursive longhand" and Jôtshum "formal longhand". The print form is known simply as Tshûm . There are various systems of romanization and transliteration for Dzongkha, but none accurately represents its phonetic sound. The Bhutanese government adopted a transcription system known as Roman Dzongkha , devised by

198-682: The Malda division ( Uttar Dinajpur , Dakshin Dinajpur , and Malda ) together. The Bihar parts include the Kishanganj district . It also includes parts of Darjeeling Hills. Traditionally, the Ganga River divides Bengal into South Bengal and North Bengal, divided again into Terai and Dooars regions. Religions in North Bengal, Bangladesh (2011) Religions in North Bengal, India (2011) The population of

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216-486: The form of CVC, CV, or VC. Syllables with complex onsets are also found, but such an onset must be a combination of an unaspirated bilabial stop and a palatal affricate. The bilabial stops in complex onsets are often omitted in colloquial speech. Dzongkha is considered a South Tibetic language . It is closely related to and partially intelligible with Sikkimese , and to some other Bhutanese languages such as Chocha Ngacha , Brokpa , Brokkat and Lakha . Dzongkha bears

234-479: The linguist George van Driem , as its standard in 1991. Dzongkha is a tonal language and has two register tones: high and low. The tone of a syllable determines the allophone of the onset and the phonation type of the nuclear vowel. All consonants may begin a syllable. In the onsets of low-tone syllables, consonants are voiced . Aspirated consonants (indicated by the superscript h ), /ɬ/ , and /h/ are not found in low-tone syllables. The rhotic /r/

252-652: The region is 30,201,873 (3 crore ) as per the 2011 census. Majority of the population follow Islam , followed by Hinduism , the largest minority. The population of the region is 18,702,060 (1.87 crore) as per the 2011 census. Majority of the population follow Hinduism , followed by Islam . Small but significant population follow Christianity and Buddhism . Language: Bengali is the predominant language spoken by 75% of North Bengal's population, followed by Kamtapuri (Rajbanshi), Nepali, Hindi, Sadri, Kurukh, and other languages. The North Zone cricket team in Bangladesh

270-615: The uninhabited Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary along the India border; northern Sarpang District (the gewog of Jigmechhoeling ) is part of Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park ; eastern and southeastern Sarpang District (the gewogs of Jigmechhoeling , Tareythang and Umling ) lie within Royal Manas National Park . Sarpang is bisected by a wide swath of biological corridor connecting all three environmentally protected areas. On April 26, 2007, Lhamoy Zingkha Dungkhag (sub-district)

288-517: Was declared the national language of Bhutan in 1971. Dzongkha study is mandatory in all schools, and the language is the lingua franca in the districts to the south and east where it is not the mother tongue. The Bhutanese films Travellers and Magicians (2003) and Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019) are in Dzongkha. The Tibetan script used to write Dzongkha has thirty basic letters , sometimes known as "radicals", for consonants . Dzongkha

306-438: Was formally transferred from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag , affecting the town of Lhamozingkha and three gewogs – Lhamoizingkha , Deorali and Nichula Gewogs (Zinchula) – that formed the westernmost part of Sarpang and became the southernmost part of Dagana. This Bhutan location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dzongkha Dzongkha ( རྫོང་ཁ་ ; [d͡zòŋkʰɑ́] )

324-439: Was used as the language of education in Bhutan until the early 1960s when it was replaced by Dzongkha in public schools. Although descended from Classical Tibetan, Dzongkha shows a great many irregularities in sound changes that make the official spelling and standard pronunciation more distant from each other than is the case with Standard Tibetan. "Traditional orthography and modern phonology are two distinct systems operating by

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