Countries
Bhutan
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
India
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Bengali Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9547
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3031
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
Tsip maza
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Laya
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,100.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
700.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Surati
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
130,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million50.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
dzongkha
goudjrati
German Name
Dzongkha
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Gujaratis
Origin
17th Century
15
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
3123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
guj
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
guj
ISO 639 3
dzo
guj
ISO 639 6
dzo
guj
Glottocode
nucl1307
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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