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Soksom (
Dzongkha Dzongkha (; ) is a Sino-Tibetan language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. It is written using the Tibetan script. The word means "the language of the fortress", from ' "fortress" and ' "language". , Dzongkha had 171,080 n ...
: སོག་སོགམ་; Wylie: ''sog-sogm'') is a traditional Bhutanese sport. It involves throwing a
javelin A javelin is a light spear designed primarily to be thrown, historically as a ranged weapon, but today predominantly for sport. The javelin is almost always thrown by hand, unlike the sling, bow, and crossbow, which launch projectiles with th ...
at a distance of .


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* Sport in Bhutan Sports originating in Bhutan {{Bhutan-sport-stub