Kheng language

Kheng
ཁེངས་ཁ་ or འཁྱེང་ཁ་
Native toBhutan
EthnicityKheng
Native speakers
50,000 (2003)
Total speakers: 65,000
Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3xkf
Glottologkhen1241
ELPKhengkha

The Khengkha language (Dzongkha: ཁེངས་ཁ་ or འཁྱེང་ཁ་), or Kheng, is an East Bodish language spoken by ~40,000 native speakers worldwide, in the Zhemgang, Trongsa, and Mongar districts of south–central Bhutan.