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Dzongkha and Afrikaans

Countries

Countries

Bhutan
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Bhutan
South Africa

Second Language

India
Namibia, South Africa

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

India
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Regulated By

Dzongkha Development Commission
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee

Interesting Facts

  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.

Similar To

Sikkimese Language
Dutch Language

Derived From

Tibetan Language
Dutch Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9532
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

515
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3017
9 60
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Scripts

Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

38 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kuzoozangpo La
hallo

Thank You

Kaadinchhey La
Dankie

How Are You?

Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Hoe gaan dit

Good Night

lek shom ay zim
goeie nag

Good Evening

ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Goeienaand

Good Afternoon

ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Goeie middag

Good Morning

ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
goeie more

Please

བསྐྱར་མ་
asseblief

Sorry

Tsip maza
jammer

Bye

Log Jay Gay
Totsiens

I Love You

Nga cheu lu ga
Ek het jou lief

Excuse Me

Tsip maza
Verskoon my

Dialects

Dialect 1

Laya
Kaapse Afrikaans

Where They Speak

Bhutan
-

How Many People Speak

1,100.007,700,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Lunana
Oranjeriverafrikaans

Where They Speak

Bhutan
-

How Many People Speak

700.007,700,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Adap
Baster Afrikaans

Where They Speak

Bhutan
Namibia

How Many People Speak

130,000.007.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

43
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.64 million19.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.17 million7.10 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.47 million10.30 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Afrikaans

Alternative Names

Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Cape Dutch

French Name

dzongkha
afrikaans

German Name

Dzongkha
Afrikaans

Pronunciation

[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]

Ethnicity

Ngalop people
Afrikaners

History

Origin

17th Century
17th Century

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

Tibeto-Burman
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch

Standard Forms

Dzongkha
Standard Afrikaans

Language Position

3123
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dzongkha
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

dz
af

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dzo
afr

ISO 639 2/B

dzo
afr

ISO 639 3

dzo
afr

ISO 639 6

dzo
afrs

Glottocode

nucl1307
afri1274

Linguasphere

No data Available
52-ACB-ba

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Analytic

Dzongkha and Afrikaans Alphabets

Dzongkha and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dzongkha and Afrikaans. In Dzongkha Alphabets there are 95 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Dzongkha and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dzongkha and Afrikaans languages. The Dzongkha phonology consist Dzongkha vowels and Dzongkha consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Dzongkha greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dzongkha and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Dzongkha and Afrikaans Speaking population

Dzongkha and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dzongkha and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Dzongkha and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 %. 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 Dzongkha and Afrikaans on Dzongkha vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dzongkha and Afrikaans Language Codes

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