Countries
India, Pakistan
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
20
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Jammu and Kashmir, India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4843
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1211
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3634
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
42 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ke aal aee
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
dhanwaad
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
kiyaan oo ji
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
shub ratri
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
shub ratri
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
शुभ अपराह्न
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
su prabat
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
kripya
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
changa ji pher
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
gustakhi maaf
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Jaunsari
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
Himachal Pradesh, India
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
100,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kullu
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
110,000.00380,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hinduri
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
India
How Many People Speak
30,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
813
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.43 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.30 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
डोगरी
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
dogri
bhojpuri
German Name
Dogri
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[ˈd̪oːɡri]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
Dogras
Bhojpuri speakers
Origin
1971
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dogri
Bhojpuri
Language Position
3237
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Dogri
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
doi
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
doi
bho
ISO 639 2/B
doi
bho
ISO 639 3
doi
bho
ISO 639 6
doi
bho
Glottocode
indo1311
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
59-AAA
59-AAF-sa
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-