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ISO 639-3 · sipsip
Southern Tibetic family
Sikkimese
འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་
Sikkimese is a language of the Southern Tibetic branch, spoken in India. Wikidata counts about 70,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Tibetic language of Nepal and Sikkim, India”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
sip- Glottocode
sikk1242- Family
- Southern Tibetic
- EGIDS
- 4 Educational
- Wikipedia
- 38 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
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1scripts
1levels in the tree
4EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Sikkimese · འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་ |
|---|---|
| Also called | Sikkimese Tibetan, Bhutia, Drenjongké, Dranjoke, Denjongka |
| All speakers | 70,000 |
| Written in | Tibetan alphabet |
Vitality
EGIDS 4 Educational4
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Southern Tibetic to Sikkimese
The branches above Sikkimese, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
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where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in India
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