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Code with Addition

Young Bhutanese adults sometimes use code language in order to conduct their romantic exchanges. In one type of code language, either a phoneme is attached at the beginning or at the end of each syllable or word to make the speech unintelligible to other listeners but is understand by the intended listener due to the mutual knowledge of what phoneme is being added.

  • ཚིག་ཐེབས་ཅན། (Dzongkha, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > Code with Addition (English, Latin script, Translation)
    • > tshig thebs can (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > tsik tep chen (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Subject ID: S7462