@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00012181,
 author = {Gyaltshen, Dorji},
 issue = {175},
 journal = {GSID Discussion Paper},
 month = {Nov},
 note = {The kingdom of Bhutan is home to as many as nineteen different spoken languages of the Tibeto-Burman language. Dzongkha, the national language, is traditionally spoken in eight of twenty districts. Linguistically, a Tibetan dialect, however, has its vocabulary and prosodic features different from the CT. Dzongkha tends to preserve the old form of Tibetan at least orthographically. Many Dzongkha lexicons have its cognates in old Tibetan. While the subjoined CD ra-btags are substituted with subjoined ya-btags in Dzongkha, the ra-gbags to p/,/ph/ and b/ initials, in particular, have resulted orthographical change in Dzongkha. Spra(tra). Monkey in CT, for example, is spya(pya) in Dzongkha and likewise brag(dag) ‘rock’ is byag. The fundamental difference is also due to contraction of the CT dissyllable nouns to monosyllables as in ka-ba (pillar) ka-w, lag-pa(hand) la-p and bu-mo ’girl’, of such several final letters. Further, orthographical change from CT words is also due to the phonological shift from CT nasal to aspirate/ha/ in Dzongkha. This paper attempts to analyse CT and DZ basic lexical items, development of newly DZ orthography based on written CT. Some phonological changes in Dzongkha have also been discussed.},
 pages = {1--15},
 title = {A Comparative Analysis of Classical Tibetan (CT) and Dzongkha (DZ) basic vocabulary},
 year = {2009}
}