Countries
Bhutan
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
India
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Central Hindi Directorate
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Urdu
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9544
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3033
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Tsip maza
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Laya
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
1,100.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Marwari
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
700.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Adap
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
130,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
421
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
dzongkha
hindi
German Name
Dzongkha
Hindi
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Hindustani people
Origin
17th Century
7th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Hindi
Language Position
315
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
hin
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
hin
ISO 639 3
dzo
hin
ISO 639 6
dzo
hins
Glottocode
nucl1307
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic