Countries
India, No official status
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
01
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
India
Regulated By
-
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Maithili and Magahi
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4395
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
115
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3430
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
प्रणाम (prannam)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
राम राम (raam raam)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
राम राम (raam raam)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
राम राम (raam raam)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
राम राम (raam raam)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Tsip maza
Bye
प्रणाम (prannam)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Caribbean Hindustani
Laya
Where They Speak
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
16,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Fiji Hindi
Lunana
Where They Speak
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
380,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Tharu Bhojpuri
Adap
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
134
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.43 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
40.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
bhojpuri
dzongkha
German Name
Bhojpuri
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Bhojpuri speakers
Ngalop people
Origin
19th Century
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bhojpuri
Dzongkha
Language Position
3731
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bho
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
bho
dzo
ISO 639 3
bho
dzo
ISO 639 6
bho
dzo
Glottocode
bhoj1246
nucl1307
Linguasphere
59-AAF-sa
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-