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27-585: The town shares its name with the Wangdue Phodrang Dzong built in 1638 that dominates the district. The name is said to have been given by Ngawang Namgyal , the 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche , who was searching for the best location for a dzong to prevent incursions from the south. At the chosen spot, the Zhabdrung encountered a boy named Wangdi playing beside the river and hence named the dzong "Wangdi's Palace". Wangdi Phodrang Dzong burnt down in

54-555: A close linguistic relationship to J'umowa, which is spoken in the Chumbi Valley of Southern Tibet . It has a much more distant relationship to Standard Tibetan . Spoken Dzongkha and Tibetan are around 50% to 80% mutually intelligible, with the literary forms of both highly influenced by the liturgical (clerical) Classical Tibetan language, known in Bhutan as Chöke, which has been used for centuries by Buddhist monks . Chöke

81-633: A more distant relationship to Standard Tibetan . Spoken Dzongkha and Tibetan are around 50 to 80 percent mutually intelligible . Dzongkha and its dialects are the native tongue of eight western districts of Bhutan ( viz. Wangdue Phodrang , Punakha , Thimphu , Gasa , Paro , Ha , Dagana and Chukha ). There are also some native speakers near the Indian town of Kalimpong , once part of Bhutan but now in North Bengal , and in Sikkim . Dzongkha

108-623: Is a Tibeto-Burman language that is the official and national language of Bhutan . It is written using the Tibetan script . The word dzongkha means "the language of the fortress", from dzong "fortress" and kha "language". As of 2013 , Dzongkha had 171,080 native speakers and about 640,000 total speakers. Dzongkha is a South Tibetic language . It is closely related to Laya and Lunana and partially intelligible with Sikkimese , and to some other Bhutanese languages such as Chocha Ngacha , Brokpa , Brokkat and Lakha . It has

135-405: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wangdue Phodrang Dzong 27°30′N 90°10′E  /  27.500°N 90.167°E  / 27.500; 90.167 Wangdue Phodrang District ( Dzongkha : དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie : Dbang-'dus Pho-brang rdzong-khag ; previously spelled "Wangdi Phodrang") is a Thromde and dzongkhag (district) of central Bhutan . This

162-510: Is about three thousand people, distributed across a total of 309 households. The gewog has two schools: Jalla Primary School and Bangteykha Primary School, as well as one BHU located at Jalla Chiwog . Hahi Gewog is located in the south western parts of Wangdue Phodrang Dzong. The total area of 6470 hectares or 64.7 sq.km. It is consists of Five chiwogs with an estimated population of 1200 people.There are one School called Nahi Primary School, Build in 1980. This Bhutan location article

189-583: Is also the name of the dzong (built in 1638) which dominates the district. The name is said to have been given by the Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal who was searching for the best location for a dzong to prevent incursions from the south. The word "wangdue" means unification of Country, and "Phodrang" means Palace in Dzongkha . Wangdue Phodrang is the largest dzongkhag in Bhutan by area and is bordered by Dagana and Tsirang dzongkhags to

216-583: Is located at the Wangdue. Based on the oral tradition, this monastery is one of several seats founded in different parts of Bhutan around 16th century by Chung Youngzin Ngagi Wangachuk. It was built as practice center of Jangsa Dzong near the village of Khotokha Yulsar. According to another oral tradition this Goenpa was founded by the 2nd Je khenpo Sonam Yozer, who came to the Je Khenpho throne in

243-527: Is often elided and results in the preceding vowel nasalized and prolonged, especially word-finally. Syllable-final /k/ is most often omitted when word-final as well, unless in formal speech. In literary pronunciation, liquids /r/ and /l/ may also end a syllable. Though rare, /ɕ/ is also found in syllable-final positions. No other consonants are found in syllable-final positions. Many words in Dzongkha are monosyllabic . Syllables usually take

270-400: Is usually a trill [ r ] or a fricative trill [ r̝ ] , and is voiceless in the onsets of high-tone syllables. /t, tʰ, ts, tsʰ, s/ are dental . Descriptions of the palatal affricates and fricatives vary from alveolo-palatal to plain palatal. Only a few consonants are found in syllable-final positions. Most common among them are /m, n, p/ . Syllable-final /ŋ/

297-587: Is usually written in Bhutanese forms of the Uchen script , forms of the Tibetan script known as Jôyi "cursive longhand" and Jôtshum "formal longhand". The print form is known simply as Tshûm . There are various systems of romanization and transliteration for Dzongkha, but none accurately represents its phonetic sound. The Bhutanese government adopted a transcription system known as Roman Dzongkha , devised by

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324-581: The Fourteenth Century. An interesting story connects the Dzong to the old cantilever bridge that once used to span the Punatsangchu. The bridge was built after the construction of the dzong under the direction of famed mason called Drakpa from Rinchengang village. As a safeguard against flash flood, a mandala dedicated to mithrugpa was installed at the base of the bridge's foundation. During

351-494: The afternoon of 24 June 2012, supposedly because of a faulty electrical water cooker. However, the dzong was being renovated at the time, so most of the historical relics had already been put into storage and were saved from destruction. Shortly after the fire, more than 1000 Japanese sympathizers donated an equivalent of over US$ 134,500 to the Wangdue Phodrang Reconstruction Fund. Dolung Gonpa

378-600: The autochthonous 'Olekha (Black Mountain Monpa) speaking community barely survive. There are three paved roads in Wangdue Phodrang dzongkhag. The Lateral Road enters from the west at Dochu La Pass, crosses the Sankosh (Puna Tsang Chhu) at Wangdue Phodrang dzong, and continues east to Tongsa. One spur road heads north from Wangdue Phodrang to the dzong at Punakha and slightly beyond. This road eventually becomes

405-609: The district (the gewogs of Kazhi , Dangchu and Sephu ) falls within Wangchuck Centennial Park , with northwestern pockets (the gewog of Kazhi ) belonging to Jigme Dorji National Park . Southeastern Wangdue (the gewogs of Athang and Phobji ) is part of Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park . Also protected are the biological corridors crisscrossing the district that connect Bhutan's extensive national park system. The environmentally precious and vulnerable lands of Phobjika Valley are not protected by

432-487: The dzong was being renovated at the time of the fire, most of the historic relics had been put into storage and so were saved from destruction. The dominant language in Wangdue Phodrang is Dzongkha , the national language, spoken in the western two-thirds of the district. Communities along the border with Bumthang District in the northeast speak Lakha . Along the same border, in central Wangdue Phodrang, inhabitants speak Nyenkha . In southeast Wangdue Phodrang, remnants of

459-795: The footpath to Gasa . A second spur departs the Lateral Road near the Pele Pass halfway between Wangdi and Tongsa, traveling south a short distance to Gangteng Monastery and the Phobjikha Valley , where rare black-necked cranes may be found. Khothang Rinchenling is one of the eight main seats founded by Kunkhye Longchen Rabjam, the Great Chariot of the Old School of the Early Translation who visited Bhutan in

486-486: The form of CVC, CV, or VC. Syllables with complex onsets are also found, but such an onset must be a combination of an unaspirated bilabial stop and a palatal affricate. The bilabial stops in complex onsets are often omitted in colloquial speech. Dzongkha is considered a South Tibetic language . It is closely related to and partially intelligible with Sikkimese , and to some other Bhutanese languages such as Chocha Ngacha , Brokpa , Brokkat and Lakha . Dzongkha bears

513-597: The government, but are maintained by the first and only Bhutanese private conservation group, the Royal Society for the Protection of Nature (RSPN). Chartered as a public benefit nonprofit organization (PBO), the RSPN focuses on education, sustainable agriculture, ecotourism, and improving living standards in ecologically responsible ways. Dzongkha language Dzongkha ( རྫོང་ཁ་ ; [d͡zòŋkʰɑ́] )

540-479: The linguist George van Driem , as its standard in 1991. Dzongkha is a tonal language and has two register tones: high and low. The tone of a syllable determines the allophone of the onset and the phonation type of the nuclear vowel. All consonants may begin a syllable. In the onsets of low-tone syllables, consonants are voiced . Aspirated consonants (indicated by the superscript h ), /ɬ/ , and /h/ are not found in low-tone syllables. The rhotic /r/

567-495: The river and completed the bridge. The unleashed floods destroyed the bridge, but the Wangzop was very clever, so he had worked with clever design into the foundation pillar to withstand the forces of water. Wangdue Phodrang features a dry-winter humid subtropical climate ( Köppen ) Rubesa Gewog is located opposite Wangdi Phodrang Dzong. It consists of six chiwogs and covers an area of approximately 163.6 sq. km. The population

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594-465: The south, Trongsa dzongkhag to the east, Thimphu and Punakha dzongkhag to the west, and Gasa dzongkhag and a small section of border with Tibet to the north. It is listed as a tentative site in Bhutan's Tentative List for UNESCO inclusion. An historic dzong built by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in 1638 was located at Wangdue Phodrang. The dzong was burnt down by a fire in June 2012. However, as

621-495: The tenure of the 20th Wangzop Domchung a big flood washed away the entire bridge, except for the mandala and the base, which were left intact. It is said the Dzongpon Domchung organized a tshechu with the masked dance, Dolay Raksha. It was performed to attract the river spirit who was disrupting reconstruction of the bridge. The sprite stayed engrossed in the festivity, Domchung with several hundred men sneaked down to

648-552: The trail to Gasa . A second spur departs the Lateral Road near the Pele La pass halfway between Wangdue and Tongsa, traveling south a short distance to Gangteng Monastery and the Phobjika valley where the rare black-necked cranes ( grus nigricollis ) may be found. Wangdue Phodrang District is divided into 15 village blocks (or gewogs ): Most of Wangdue Phodrang District is environmentally protected . The northern half of

675-757: The water Rat year of the 11th Rabjung. Today the Government has started a monastic school at this two-storey monastery. Situated at 2770 meters above sea level, it can be reached in about fifteen minutes on foot from Khothang Rinchenling Shedra. There are three paved roads in Wangdi Phodrang. The Lateral Road enters from the west at Dochula Pass, crosses the Sankosh River (Dzongkha: Puna Tsang Chhu ) at Wangdi Phodrang Dzong, and continues east to Tongsa. One spur road heads north from Wangdi Phodrang to Punakha Dzong and slightly beyond. This becomes

702-522: Was declared the national language of Bhutan in 1971. Dzongkha study is mandatory in all schools, and the language is the lingua franca in the districts to the south and east where it is not the mother tongue. The Bhutanese films Travellers and Magicians (2003) and Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019) are in Dzongkha. The Tibetan script used to write Dzongkha has thirty basic letters , sometimes known as "radicals", for consonants . Dzongkha

729-439: Was used as the language of education in Bhutan until the early 1960s when it was replaced by Dzongkha in public schools. Although descended from Classical Tibetan, Dzongkha shows a great many irregularities in sound changes that make the official spelling and standard pronunciation more distant from each other than is the case with Standard Tibetan. "Traditional orthography and modern phonology are two distinct systems operating by

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