Countries
India, Pakistan
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Jammu and Kashmir, India
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
India
Regulated By
-
Dzongkha Development Commission
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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4895
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3630
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
42 weeks38 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ke aal aee
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
dhanwaad
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
kiyaan oo ji
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
shub ratri
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
shub ratri
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
शुभ अपराह्न
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
su prabat
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
kripya
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
Tsip maza
Bye
changa ji pher
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
gustakhi maaf
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Jaunsari
Laya
Where They Speak
Himachal Pradesh, India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
100,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kullu
Lunana
Where They Speak
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
110,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hinduri
Adap
Where They Speak
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
30,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.30 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
डोगरी
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
dogri
dzongkha
German Name
Dogri
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈd̪oːɡri]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Dogras
Ngalop people
Origin
1971
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
Dogri
Dzongkha
Language Position
3231
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Dogri
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
doi
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
doi
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
doi
dzo
ISO 639 3
doi
dzo
ISO 639 6
doi
dzo
Glottocode
indo1311
nucl1307
Linguasphere
59-AAA
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-