Dzongkha

The dzongkha (རྫོང ་ ཁ ་) is the dialect Tibetan which is used as official language with the Bhutan ('Brug-yul “country of the dragon”); the other languages usually practiced in Bhutan are the Sharchopkha and the Nepalese.

Intercommunication is impossible with the Tibetan of Lhassa in spite of oral similarities and a common alphabet (though according to a different C-W communication).

The language is taught at the school with English. As certain matters are taught only in English (mathematics, sciences, etc), Dzongkha undergoes a direct competition and which is currently not favorable for him.

Use in data processing

July 19th, 2006, the first computing system which completely support the national language of the country, DzongkhaLinux, based on the project Debian, and which was developed in Bhutan was launched, according to the ministry for the information and the communication of the royal government of Bhutan, Lyonpo Leki Dorji.

applications end-to use , such as GNOME, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla, were represented.

Microsoft

In October 2005, an internal memorandum with Microsoft prohibited the use of the term Dzongkha for the software of the company and the publicity material, him substituent the term Tibetan - Bhutan in the place. This decision makes following the request of the government of the Popular republic of China, which insists on the fact that the name Dzongkha implies an affiliation with the Dalaï Lama and thus the Tibetan cause. The Bhutan was however always independent of the Dalaï Lama S. Pourtant, the Bhutaneses who follow in majority the Bouddhisme Tibetan, venerate the 14th Dalaï Lama, and they denounced the term Tibetan - Bhutan which they describe as erroneous linguists consider that the word " Dzongkha" does not have particular association with Dalai Lama.

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