Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Bhutan
Second Language
India
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America
India
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
- 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5195
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
115
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4030
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
Tsip maza
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Chakma
Laya
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
330,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hajong
Lunana
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
71,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rarhi
Adap
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
230,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
254
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.11 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
196.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
19.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
bengali
dzongkha
German Name
Bengali
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈbeŋɡali]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Ngalop people
Origin
1000–1200 CE
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bengali
Dzongkha
Language Position
431
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Bengali
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bn
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ben
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
ben
dzo
ISO 639 3
ben
dzo
ISO 639 6
ben
dzo
Glottocode
beng1280
nucl1307
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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