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Non-poetic Riddle

Bhutan has a rich culture of riddles. The term for riddles differ from district to district and the mode of how they play riddles also vary from valley to valley. Some riddles do not involve fixed expressions, phrases or verses and people describe them in their own way. Thus, a riddle question may be asked differently by persons using their own language and words although the actual question is the same.

  • སྙན་ཚིག་མེད་པའི་མཁར་གཏམ། (Dzongkha, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > Non-poetic Riddle (English, Latin script, Translation)
    • > snyan tshig med pa'i mkhar gtam (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > nyen tsik mé pé khar tam (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Subject ID: S7458