Countries
Bhutan
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
India
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
- 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Assamese and Oriya
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9551
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3040
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
Sorry
Tsip maza
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
Dialect 1
Laya
Chakma
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bangladesh, Burma, India
How Many People Speak
1,100.00330,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Hajong
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bangladesh, India
How Many People Speak
700.0071,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Rarhi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
130,000.00230,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
425
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million215.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %3.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million196.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million19.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
French Name
dzongkha
bengali
German Name
Dzongkha
Bengali
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈbeŋɡali]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Origin
17th Century
1000–1200 CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Bengali
Language Position
314
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Bengali
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
bn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
ben
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
ben
ISO 639 3
dzo
ben
ISO 639 6
dzo
ben
Glottocode
nucl1307
beng1280
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAF-u
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-