Countries
Bhutan
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Ethiopia
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3031
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
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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
Selam
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Dehina newot?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Dehna dur
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
i'ndemin adäru
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
i'bakwon
Sorry
Tsip maza
aznallehu
Bye
Log Jay Gay
tschao
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Laya
Gondar
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Gondar
How Many People Speak
1,100.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
700.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Showa
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
130,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
45
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
dzongkha
amharique
German Name
Dzongkha
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Amharas
Origin
17th Century
13th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Amharic
Language Position
3155
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
amh
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
amh
ISO 639 3
dzo
amh
ISO 639 6
dzo
amh
Glottocode
nucl1307
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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-
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional