Ngalop_people
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The Ngalop (Dzongkha: སྔ་ལོང་པ་ Wylie: snga long pa; "earliest risen people" or "first converted people" according to folk etymology) are people of ethnic Tibetan origin who migrated from Tibet to Bhutan as early as the ninth century. Orientalists adopted the term "Bhote" or Bhotiya, meaning literally "people of Bod (Tibet)", a term also applied to the Tibetan people, leading to confusion, and now
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Accuracy is not guaranteed.
 Bhotanese Ngalop in 1868 | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 708,500 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Western, Northern and parts of South-East and South Bhutan (Thimphu, Gasa, Punakha, Wangdue Phodrang, Haa, Paro, Chukha) | |
| Languages | |
| Dzongkha | |
| Religion | |
| Tibetan Buddhist sect of Vajrayana Buddhism · Bon | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Tibetans · Layaps · Monpa · Sharchop · Other Sino-Tibetan-speaking peoples |
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