Dhur

Dhur
དུར་
Dhur
Location in Bhutan
Coordinates:
Country Bhutan
Dzongkhag Bumthang District
Gewog Chhoekhor Gewog
Time zone BTT (UTC+6)

Dhur or D°ur (Dzongkha: དུར་; Wylie: dur) is a town in western Chhoekhor Gewog, Bumthang District in central Bhutan.[1][2]

Dhur is the main area where Brokkat, one of the endangered languages of Bhutan, is spoken.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Chiwogs in Bumthang" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/bumthang.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-28. 
  2. ^ "NGA GeoName Database". National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on 2008-06-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20080608190852/http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/geonames4.asp. Retrieved 2008-07-03. 
  3. ^ "Brokkat". Ethnologue Online. Dallas: SIL International. 2006. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bro. Retrieved 2011-01-18. 
  4. ^ van Driem, George L. (1993). "Language Policy in Bhutan" (PDF). London: SOAS. http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:3003. Retrieved 2011-01-18. 

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