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Countries

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

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5195
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

115
0 32
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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
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks38 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

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

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakma
Laya

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, Burma, India
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

330,000.001,100.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hajong
Lunana

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, India
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

71,000.00700.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Rarhi
Adap

Where They Speak

India
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

230,000,000.00130,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

254
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

215.00 million0.64 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

3.11 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

196.00 million0.17 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

19.00 million0.47 million
0.01 400
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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

History

Origin

1000–1200 CE
17th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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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

Code

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
No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

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Bengali and Dzongkha Alphabets

Bengali and Dzongkha Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Bengali and Dzongkha. In Bengali Alphabets there are 51 letters while in Dzongkha Alphabets there are 95 letters. To learn Bengali and Dzongkha languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Bengali and Dzongkha languages. The Bengali phonology consist Bengali vowels and Bengali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Bengali greetings vs Dzongkha greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Bengali and Dzongkha are Most Spoken Languages.

All Bengali and Dzongkha Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Bengali and Dzongkha dialects. Various dialects of Bengali and Dzongkha language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bengali are spoken in different Bengali Speaking Countries whereas Dzongkha Dialects are spoken in different Dzongkha speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bengali vs Dzongkha Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bengali dialects include: Chakma, Hajong. Dzongkha dialects include: Laya , Lunana. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Bengali and Dzongkha Speaking population

Bengali and Dzongkha speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bengali and Dzongkha languages can be compared. The total count of Bengali and Dzongkha Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bengali language is 3.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Bengali and Dzongkha on Bengali vs Dzongkha where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bengali and Dzongkha Language Codes

Bengali and Dzongkha language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Bengali and Dzongkha Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.