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Language: Dzongkha

Estimated Global Speakers

290,000

People Groups Speaking as Primary Language

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People Group ▲	Country	Country Population	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Adap	Bhutan	300	300	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Drukpa	Bhutan	216,000	234,000	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	4
Drukpa	India	17,000	234,000	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Drukpa, Dzongkha	Denmark	600	234,000		Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Ngalong	Bhutan	88,000	88,000	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	2
Totals: 5						5 ●			9

* An estimate of the number of pioneer workers needed for initial church planting among unreached people groups by country. Estimates are calculated only for unreached people groups and are based on ratio of 1 worker for every 50,000 individuals living in an unreached people group by country. Some workers may already be onsite. Many more workers are needed beyond this initial estimate.

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People Group ▲	Country	Population	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Bhotia	India	114,000	114,000	●	Buddhism	1 ●	4.90 %	-1	2
Gurung Ghaleg	Nepal	502,000	621,000	●	Buddhism	2 ●	5.00 %	-1	-1 -
Totals: 2						1 ●			2

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Item	Value
Status	Living
Ethnologue Code	dzo
Written	Yes
Bible Translation	Complete Bible
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Language Alternate Names
Bhotia of Bhutan
Bhotia of Dukpa
Bhutanese
Drokpa
Drukha
Drukke
Drukpa
Dukpa
Hloka
Jonkha
Lhoskad
Rdzongkha
Thimphu-Punakha
Wang-The (Thimphu-Punakha)
Zongkhar

Dialects
Adap
Ha
Northern Thimphu
Wang-the

Dialect Alternate Names
Thimphu-punakha

Translation	Year / Status
Bible Portions	1970
New Testament	2000-2007
Complete Bible	2010

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Resource ▲	Link
Audio Recordings	Audio Bible teaching (GRN)
Audio Recordings	Online New Testament (FCBH)
Film / Video	God's Story Video
Film / Video	Jesus Film: view in Dzongkha
Film / Video	Ken Anderson Films Online
Film / Video	My Last Day (Jesus Film Project Anime)
Text / Printed Matter	Online Bible text (Scripture Earth)
Text / Printed Matter	World Missionary Press Booklets

The Joshua Project Progress Scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language. The Progress Scale is derived from people group values for percent Evangelical and percent Christian Adherent.

Level	Description	Criteria
1	Unreached - Few evangelicals and few who identify as Christians. Little, if any, history of Christianity.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians <= 5%
2	Minimally reached - Few evangelicals, but significant number who identify as Christians.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
3	Superficially reached - Few evangelicals, but many who identify as Christians. In great need of spiritual renewal and commitment to biblical faith.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 50%
4	Partially reached - Evangelicals have a modest presence.	Evangelicals > 2% and <= 10%
5	Significantly reached - Evangelicals have a significant presence.	Evangelicals > 10%

Disclaimers:

Joshua Project data is drawn from many sources and of varying accuracy depending on source and editorial decisions. Populations are scaled to the current year. Other data may have varying ages. We welcome suggested updates.
A displayed zero can mean true zero, a very small rounded number or sometimes unknown. Blanks mean an unknown value.
The data is sometimes not as precise as it appears. Values for %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical (which determine unreached status) are often informed estimates, some more accurate than others. We recommend against using %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical to calculate absolute numbers.
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