Countries
South Africa
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Bhutan
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
India
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
India
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Dutch Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3295
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1730
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Dankie
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
goeie nag
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Goeienaand
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
goeie more
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
asseblief
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
jammer
Tsip maza
Bye
Totsiens
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Laya
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Lunana
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Adap
Where They Speak
Namibia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
7.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
afrikaans
dzongkha
German Name
Afrikaans
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Ngalop people
Origin
17th Century
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Dzongkha
Language Position
2331
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
afr
dzo
ISO 639 3
afr
dzo
ISO 639 6
afrs
dzo
Glottocode
afri1274
nucl1307
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
-