Countries
Bhutan
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
India
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Institute of the Estonian Language
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Finnish
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9527
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3018
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
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
Tere
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
aitäh
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Head ööd
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Tere päevast
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Tere hommikust
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Palun
Sorry
Tsip maza
Vabandust
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Head aega
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Laya
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
1,100.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Tartu
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
700.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Bhutan
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
130,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million1.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million0.95 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Eesti keel
French Name
dzongkha
estonien
German Name
Dzongkha
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Estonians
Origin
17th Century
13th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Estonian
Language Position
3122
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
dz
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
est
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
est
ISO 639 3
dzo
est
ISO 639 6
dzo
est
Glottocode
nucl1307
esto1258
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative