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2 unusual facts about Wylie transliteration


Highland barley

Highland barley (Tibetan: ནས་; Wylie: nas; Chinese: 青稞; qīngkē, or 藏青课; zàng qīngkē) is the principal cereal cultivated on the Tibetan Plateau, used mainly to make tsampa and alcohol.

Royal Court of Justice

The Bhutanese Royal Court of Justice (Dzongkha: དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་པའི་དྲང་ཁྲིམས་ལྷན་སྡེ་; Wylie Dpal-ldan 'Brug-pai Drang-khrims Lhan-sde; Palden Drukpa Drangkhrim Lhende) is the government body which oversees the judicial system of Bhutan.


Bumthang language

The Bumthang language (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་ཁ་; Wylie: Bum-thang-kha; also called "Bhumtam," "Bumtang(kha)," "Bumtanp," "Bumthapkha," and "Kebumtamp") is an East Bodish language spoken by about 36,500 people in Bumthang and surrounding districts in central Bhutan.

Chocangaca language

Choca-ngaca or Chocangacakha (Dzongkha: ཁྱོད་ཅ་ང་ཅ་ཁ་; Wylie: Khyod-ca-nga-ca-kha; also called "Kursmadkha," "Maphekha," "Rtsamangpa'ikha," and "Tsagkaglingpa'ikha") or Tsamang is a Southern Tibetan language spoken by about 20,000 people in the Kurichu Valley of Lhuntse and Mongar Districts in eastern Bhutan.

Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck

Queen Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck (Dzongkha: རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་མོ་དབང་ཕྱུག་; Wylie: Rdo-rje Dbang-mo Dbang-phyug) (December 20, 1955, second daughter of Yab Ugen Dorji and Yum Thuiji Zam) is a former queen of Bhutan and first wife of former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who is married to four sisters all of whom were entitled to be called queen.

Drigung Monastery

It was founded in 1179 by the founder of that tradition, Drigung Kyobpa Jigten-gonpo-rinchenpel (Wylie: ‘Bri-gung sKyob-pa ‘Jig-rten dgon-po rin-chen dpal, also called Kyobpa Rinpoche, or Jigten Sumgön 1143-1217).

Gyaincain Norbu

Meaning "Dharma king", this name can also be written Chökyi Gyalpo, Choekyi Gyalpo, or, in Wylie transliteration, Chos-kyi Rgyal-po.

Kurtöp language

The Kurtöp language (Dzongkha: ཀུར་ཏོ་པ་ཁ་; Wylie: Kur-to-pa kha; Kurtöpkha, also called Kurtö and Zhâke) is a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken in the Kurtoe Gewog, Lhuntse District, Bhutan.


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