A nation-wide school system was set up with 61 secular schools at which the instruction was also provided in Chöke, and English in addition to Hindi. “Chöke remained the medium of instruction in the lamasery schools.”ĭuring the reign of the third king, the number of secular schools was increased to five. Professor George van Driem said that when the first two secular schools were opened in Bhutan, Hindi was chosen as the medium of instruction because of the ready availability of inexpensive textbooks. Professor George van Driem is the chair of historical linguistics at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Professor George van Driem on the second day of the Mountain Echoes Literary Festival discussed on Dzongkha script, and its phonological characteristics that changes over time. Although widely spoken, Bhutan’s national language is difficult when written.
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