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Countries

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

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9551
18 247
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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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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

How Many People Speak?

0.64 million215.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %3.11 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.17 million196.00 million
0 873
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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)

History

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

Code

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

-
-

Dzongkha and Bengali Alphabets

Dzongkha and Bengali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dzongkha and Bengali. In Dzongkha Alphabets there are 95 letters while in Bengali Alphabets there are 51 letters. To learn Dzongkha and Bengali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dzongkha and Bengali 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 Bengali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dzongkha and Bengali are Most Spoken Languages.

All Dzongkha and Bengali Dialects

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Dzongkha and Bengali Speaking population

Dzongkha and Bengali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dzongkha and Bengali languages can be compared. The total count of Dzongkha and Bengali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Bengali language is 3.11 %. 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 Bengali on Dzongkha vs Bengali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dzongkha and Bengali Language Codes

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