Sikkimese language

Sikkimese (འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་) is a Tibetic languages spoken by the Sikkimese people in Sikkim, India, and northeast Nepal. The Sikkimese people call their language Dranjongke meaning "Rice Valley language" and they call their homeland Denzong meaning "Rice Valley".^[2][3] Other names for the language are Bhotia, Dranjoke, Denjongka, Denzongpeke, and Denzongke.

Sikkimese
Drenjongke
འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་ 'bras ljongs skad
Region	Sikkim, Nepal (Mechi Zone), Bhutan
Ethnicity	Sikkimese
Native speakers	70,000 (2001)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Kanauri ? Bodish Tibetic Dzongkha–Lhokä Sikkimese
Writing system	Tibetan script
Official status
Official language in	India Sikkim
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sip
Glottolog	sikk1242
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References

1. Sikkimese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). "Sikkimese". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16 ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
3. "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