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Cowrie

The cowrie shell game is common among Bhutanese people. In the game, people put a bet and then a person throws the cowrie shell in a specfic swing. If the more cowrie shell land facing up, the player wins the bet and if more cowrie shells land facing down, the player loses the bet.

  • ཀའོ་རི། (Dzongkha, Tibetan script, Original)(2015)
    • > Cowrie (English, Latin script, Translation)(2015)
    • > ka'o ri (Dzongkha, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)(2015)
    • > kao ri (Dzongkha, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)(2015)

Subject ID: S7780