Countries
Bhutan
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9552
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3041
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Bengali
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
nomoskaar
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
subhoraattri
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
subha abeli
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
suprobhaat
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
anugroha kori
Sorry
Tsip maza
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
Log Jay Gay
biḍai
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Laya
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
1,100.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
700.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Assam
How Many People Speak
130,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million15.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
dzongkha
assamais
German Name
Dzongkha
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Assamese people
Origin
17th Century
7th century A.D
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Assamese
Language Position
3165
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
asm
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
asm
ISO 639 3
dzo
asm
ISO 639 6
dzo
asm
Glottocode
nucl1307
assa1263
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAF-w
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-