The Chali language (
Dzongkha: ཚ་ལི་ཁ་;
Wylie: ''Tsha-li-kha''; also called "Chalikha," "Chalipkha," "Tshali," and "Tshalingpa") is an
East Bodish language spoken by about 1,398 people in Wangmakhar, Gorsum and Tormazhong villages in
Mongar District
Mongar District ( Dzongkha: མོང་སྒར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Mong-sgar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Mongar is the fastest-developing dzongkhag in eastern Bhutan. A regional ...
in eastern
Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...
, mainly around
Chhali Gewog on east bank of
Kuri Chhu River.
Chalikha is related to
Bumthangkha and
Kurtöpkha.
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See also
*Languages of Bhutan
There are two dozen languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except for Nepali, which is an Indo-Aryan language, and Bhutanese Sign Language. Dzongkha, the national language, is the only native language of Bhutan with ...
References
External links
Himalayan Languages Project
Languages of Bhutan
East Bodish languages
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