Bhutanese literature

It is rich and full of folklore, but due to lack of reading culture, it is growing very slowly as compared to other contemporary literatures.

[4] In Bhutan, eighteen different languages are spoken; and of those only Dzongkha has a native literary tradition.

In Western Bhutan the predominant language is Dzongkha, in the east it is Tshangla and along the southern belt it is Nepali.

[5] Dzongkha is a descendant of Chöke (Classical Tibetan), which was the language of education in Bhutan until the early 1960s.

In those days, Nepali articles written by the writers from, primarily, Kalimpong and Darjeeling used to be published in Kunsel.