Countries
Bhutan
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Abkhazia
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9562
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
52
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3060
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
амритана
Sorry
Tsip maza
Амарахь
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
-
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Laya
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
1,100.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
700.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Sadz
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Turkey
How Many People Speak
130,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
dzongkha
abkhaze
German Name
Dzongkha
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Abkhaz people
Origin
17th Century
c. 1650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Abkhaz
Language Position
3128
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
abk
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
abk
ISO 639 3
dzo
abk
ISO 639 6
dzo
abks
Glottocode
nucl1307
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative