Countries
Bhutan
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Jammu and Kashmir, India
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
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Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9548
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks42 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Ke aal aee
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
dhanwaad
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
kiyaan oo ji
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
shub ratri
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
shub ratri
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
शुभ अपराह्न
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
su prabat
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
kripya
Sorry
Tsip maza
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
Bye
Log Jay Gay
changa ji pher
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
gustakhi maaf
Dialect 1
Laya
Jaunsari
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Himachal Pradesh, India
How Many People Speak
1,100.00100,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Kullu
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
How Many People Speak
700.00110,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Hinduri
Where They Speak
Bhutan
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
How Many People Speak
130,000.0030,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million4.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million4.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million2.30 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
डोगरी
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
French Name
dzongkha
dogri
German Name
Dzongkha
Dogri
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈd̪oːɡri]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Dogras
Origin
17th Century
1971
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Dogri
Language Position
3132
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Dogri
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
dz
doi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
doi
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
doi
ISO 639 3
dzo
doi
ISO 639 6
dzo
doi
Glottocode
nucl1307
indo1311
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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