Countries
Bhutan
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Bulgaria
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
India
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Macedonian language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9530
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic
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
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Tsip maza
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Laya
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,100.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
700.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
130,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
458
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million7.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Balgarski
French Name
dzongkha
bulgare
German Name
Dzongkha
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Bulgarian people
Origin
17th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
3188
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
bul
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
bul
ISO 639 3
dzo
bul
ISO 639 6
dzo
buls
Glottocode
nucl1307
bulg1262
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-