Countries
Bhutan
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
10
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
India
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9543
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3034
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
Tsip maza
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Laya
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
1,100.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
700.00380,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
130,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
413
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million40.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.43 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
dzongkha
bhojpuri
German Name
Dzongkha
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Bhojpuri speakers
Origin
17th Century
19th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Bhojpuri
Language Position
3137
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
bho
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
bho
ISO 639 3
dzo
bho
ISO 639 6
dzo
bho
Glottocode
nucl1307
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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