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Dzongkha
Dzongkha




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About Dzongkha Language

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Countries

Countries

Bhutan

Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Bhutan

Second Language

India

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

India

Regulated By

Dzongkha Development Commission

Interesting Facts

  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.

Similar To

Sikkimese Language

Derived From

Tibetan Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

95
Rank: 39 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

30
Rank: 20 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille

Writing Direction

-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

38 weeks
Rank: 14 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kuzoozangpo La

Thank You

Kaadinchhey La

How Are You?

Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?

Good Night

lek shom ay zim

Good Evening

ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་

Good Afternoon

ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ

Good Morning

ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ

Please

བསྐྱར་མ་

Sorry

Tsip maza

Bye

Log Jay Gay

I Love You

Nga cheu lu ga

Excuse Me

Tsip maza

Dialects

Dialect 1

Laya

Where They Speak

Bhutan

How Many People Speak

1,100.00
Rank: 89 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Lunana

Where They Speak

Bhutan

How Many People Speak

700.00
Rank: 91 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Adap

Where They Speak

Bhutan

How Many People Speak

130,000.00
Rank: 65 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

4
Rank: 4 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.64 million
Rank: 88 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %
Rank: 58 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.17 million
Rank: 87 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.47 million
Rank: 64 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)

Alternative Names

Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar

French Name

dzongkha

German Name

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]

Ethnicity

Ngalop people

History

Origin

17th Century

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

-

Branch

Tibeto-Burman

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Dzongkha

Language Position

31
Rank: 29 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dzongkha

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

dz

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dzo

ISO 639 2/B

dzo

ISO 639 3

dzo

ISO 639 6

dzo

Glottocode

nucl1307

Linguasphere

No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-

Language Morphological Typology

-

Know Alphabets in Dzongkha

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Dzongkha Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Dzongkha Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Dzongkha. Dzongkha phonology gives Dzongkha vowels and Dzongkha consonants. There are 5 vowels and 30 consonants in Dzongkha language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Dzongkha is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Dzongkha language is given in detail in this section.

All Dzongkha countries

Want to explore all Dzongkha countries? About Dzongkha language serves you with all Dzongkha Speaking Countries. Countries that use Dzongkha as official language are called as Dzongkha countries.

  • Countries that use Dzongkha as their National Language are: Bhutan.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Dzongkha as second language are: India.

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Learn Dzongkha greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Dzongkha Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Dzongkha language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Dzongkha language.Learn Dzongkha greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Kuzoozangpo La
  • Thank you: Kaadinchhey La
  • Good Morning: ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
  • Good Evening: ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
  • Good Afternoon: ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ

All Dzongkha Language Codes

Get to know all Dzongkha language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Dzongkha Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.