Countries
Bhutan
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Ghana
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
India
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Akan Orthography Committee
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9521
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3016
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
ete-sen
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
meda ase
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
maadwo
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
maadwo
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
maaha
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
maakye
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
wae
Sorry
Tsip maza
Kafra
Bye
Log Jay Gay
bye
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Laya
Asante
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,100.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Akuapem
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Ghana
How Many People Speak
700.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Fante
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Ghana
How Many People Speak
130,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Akan
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Twi, Fante
French Name
dzongkha
akan
German Name
Dzongkha
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Akan people
Origin
17th Century
15
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Akan
Language Position
31104
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
dz
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
aka
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
aka
ISO 639 3
dzo
aka
ISO 639 6
dzo
aka
Glottocode
nucl1307
akan1251
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-