Countries
India, Pakistan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Jammu and Kashmir, India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
-
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4853
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3643
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
42 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ke aal aee
Molo
Thank You
dhanwaad
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
kiyaan oo ji
Unjani
Good Night
shub ratri
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
shub ratri
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
शुभ अपराह्न
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
su prabat
Molo
Please
kripya
Ndicela
Sorry
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
changa ji pher
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
gustakhi maaf
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Jaunsari
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Himachal Pradesh, India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
100,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kullu
Thembu
Where They Speak
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
110,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hinduri
Hlubi
Where They Speak
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
30,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
89
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.30 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
डोगरी
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
dogri
xhosa
German Name
Dogri
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈd̪oːɡri]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Dogras
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
1971
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dogri
isiXhosa
Language Position
3221
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Dogri
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
doi
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
doi
xho
ISO 639 2/B
doi
xho
ISO 639 3
doi
xho
ISO 639 6
doi
xho
Glottocode
indo1311
xhos1239
Linguasphere
59-AAA
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-