Countries
Bhutan
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Cabinet of Georgia
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3028
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Tsip maza
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Laya
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,100.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Kartli
How Many People Speak
700.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
130,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
dzongkha
géorgien
German Name
Dzongkha
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Georgians
Origin
17th Century
5th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
-
Southern
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Modern Georgian
Language Position
31120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
dz
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
kat
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
geo
ISO 639 3
dzo
kat
ISO 639 6
dzo
kat
Glottocode
nucl1307
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic