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Dzongkha and Abkhaz


Abkhaz and Dzongkha


Countries

Countries
Bhutan  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
3  
12

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  
-  

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

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

Alphabets
95  
39
62  
36

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
2  
1

How Many Consonants
30  
20
60  
36

Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
-  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks  
14
27 weeks  
8

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Laya  
Bzyb  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Abkhazia  

How Many People Speak
1,100.00  
99+
106,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Lunana  
Abzhywa  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Caucasus  

How Many People Speak
700.00  
99+
106,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Adap  
Sadz  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Turkey  

How Many People Speak
130,000.00  
99+
106,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
4  
4
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.64 million  
99+
0.13 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.07 %  
99+
0.01 %  
99+

Native Speakers
0.17 million  
99+
0.13 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.47 million  
99+
-  

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  

History

Origin
17th Century  
c. 1650  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Northwest Caucasian  

Subgroup
-  
-  

Branch
Tibeto-Burman  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Dzongkha  
Abkhaz  

Language Position
31  
29
28  
26

Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha  
Abkhaz Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Agglutinative  

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

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Dzongkha and Abkhaz Speaking population

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