BHUTAN ENGLISH – DZONGKHA DICTIONARY: DZONGKHA DICTIONARY

BHUTAN or the KINGDOM OF BHUTAN is a landlocked country in the Eastern Himalayas, between India to the south and China to the north. Being a small country of close to 15,000 sq. mi. in size, it has a population of nearly 750.000 people. The national language of Bhutan is called Dzongkha and has about 170,000 native speakers with a total of 640,000 speakers. This dictionary was made possible with the help of a Bhutanese English teacher and native Dzongkha speaker. The first 65 pages of this dictionary have a total of 2,046 carefully chosen words. Each word has its grammatical abbreviation along with the English pronunciation and the Dzongkha script. The second part of the dictionary consists of 34 separate categories. These categories are: Animals (all wildlife), Body (human anatomy), Buildings (all structures), Clothing (accessories), Colors, Countries, Days (days/weeks/months/years), Directions, Entertainment (games/hobbies/sports), Family (relatives), Health / Emergency, Household (furniture/appliances / etc., Jewelry (accessories), People, Places, Sky / Weather, Time / Clock, Vegetation, Vehicles (transportation), All Foods (foods/drinks/condiments, Cereals / Dairy / Desserts, Beverages / Drinks, Fruit, Meats / Fish, Salads / Soups, Vegetables, Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Exclamations, Prepositions, Pronouns, Verbs, and Opposites. —- ISBN: 9798876096500 | ISBN10: B0CSBGZ7TW | ISBN-13: 979-8876096500