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Dzongkha and Dutch


Countries

Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname  
Bhutan  

Total No. Of Countries
6  
9
1  
14

National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname  
Bhutan  

Second Language
South Africa  
India  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America  
Asia  

Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia  
India  

Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)  
Dzongkha Development Commission  

Interesting Facts
  • Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
  • There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  

Similar To
German and English Languages  
Sikkimese Language  

Derived From
-  
Tibetan Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
95  
39

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
21  
11
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
38 weeks  
14

Greetings

Hello
Hallo  
Kuzoozangpo La  

Thank You
dankjewel  
Kaadinchhey La  

How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?  
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?  

Good Night
goede Nacht  
lek shom ay zim  

Good Evening
goedenavond  
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་  

Good Afternoon
goedemiddag  
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ  

Good Morning
goedemorgen  
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ  

Please
alsjeblieft  
བསྐྱར་མ་  

Sorry
sorry  
Tsip maza  

Bye
vaarwel  
Log Jay Gay  

I Love You
Ik hou van jou  
Nga cheu lu ga  

Excuse Me
pardon  
Tsip maza  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Gronings  
Laya  

Where They Speak
Netherlands  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
590,000.00  
99+
1,100.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Low Saxon  
Lunana  

Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00  
99+
700.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Limburgian  
Adap  

Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00  
99+
130,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
7  
7
4  
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
28.00 million  
38
0.64 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.32 %  
40
0.07 %  
99+

Native Speakers
22.00 million  
35
0.17 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
0.47 million  
99+

Native Name
Nederlands  
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)  

Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands  
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar  

French Name
néerlandais; flamand  
dzongkha  

German Name
Niederländisch  
Dzongkha  

Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]  
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]  

Ethnicity
Dutch people  
Ngalop people  

History

Origin
AD 450-500  
17th Century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
-  

Branch
Western  
Tibeto-Burman  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Dutch  
Dzongkha  

Language Position
48  
99+
31  
29

Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)  
Signed Dzongkha  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
nl  
dz  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
nld  
dzo  

ISO 639 2/B
dut  
dzo  

ISO 639 3
nld  
dzo  

ISO 639 6
nld  
dzo  

Glottocode
mode1257  
nucl1307  

Linguasphere
52-ACB-a  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Historical  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
-  

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All Dutch 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 Dutch and Dzongkha dialects. Various dialects of Dutch and Dzongkha language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dutch are spoken in different Dutch Speaking Countries whereas Dzongkha Dialects are spoken in different Dzongkha speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dutch vs Dzongkha Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dutch dialects include: Gronings, Low Saxon. Dzongkha dialects include: Laya , Lunana. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Dutch and Dzongkha Speaking population

Dutch and Dzongkha speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Dzongkha languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Dzongkha Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % 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 Dutch and Dzongkha on Dutch vs Dzongkha where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Dzongkha Language Codes

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

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