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Dzongkha and Georgian


Georgian and Dzongkha


Countries

Countries
Bhutan  
Georgia  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

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

Alphabets in
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
95  
39
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
28  
18

Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille  
Arabic, Georgian script  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks  
14
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Laya  
Judaeo-Georgian  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America  

How Many People Speak
1,100.00  
99+
80,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Lunana  
Kartlian  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Kartli  

How Many People Speak
700.00  
99+
4,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Adap  
Pshavian  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Pshavi  

How Many People Speak
130,000.00  
99+
4,000,000.00  
40

Total No. Of Dialects
4  
4
20  
18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.64 million  
99+
4.30 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.07 %  
99+
0.64 %  
26

Native Speakers
0.17 million  
99+
4.30 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.47 million  
99+
4.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
31  
29
120  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha  
Georgian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

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  

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All Dzongkha and Georgian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Dzongkha and Georgian dialects. Various dialects of Dzongkha and Georgian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dzongkha are spoken in different Dzongkha Speaking Countries whereas Georgian Dialects are spoken in different Georgian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dzongkha vs Georgian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dzongkha dialects include: Laya, Lunana. Georgian dialects include: Judaeo-Georgian , Kartlian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Dzongkha and Georgian Speaking population

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