Countries
India
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
India
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5295
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
115
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4130
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
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
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
nomoskaar
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
subhoraattri
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
suprobhaat
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
anugroha kori
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
Tsip maza
Bye
biḍai
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Laya
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Lunana
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Adap
Where They Speak
Assam
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
assamais
dzongkha
German Name
Assamesisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Ngalop people
Origin
7th century A.D
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
No early forms
Standard Forms
Assamese
Dzongkha
Language Position
6531
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
as
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
asm
dzo
ISO 639 3
asm
dzo
ISO 639 6
asm
dzo
Glottocode
assa1263
nucl1307
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-