Countries
Bhutan
India, Karnataka, India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Karnataka, India
Second Language
India
Goa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Kannada is the third oldest language after Sanskrit and Tamil of India
- Kannada language is only Indian language which got maximum i.e. 8 GyanaPeetha Awards.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Telugu
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9549
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
514
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3035
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
ಹಲೋ (Halō)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)
Sorry
Tsip maza
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
ಬೈ (Bai)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)
Dialect 1
Laya
Badaga
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
How Many People Speak
1,100.00540,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Urali
Where They Speak
Bhutan
kerala
How Many People Speak
700.006,440.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Kurumba
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
130,000.00220,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million49.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.58 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi
French Name
dzongkha
kannada
German Name
Dzongkha
Kannada
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Kannadiga
Origin
17th Century
c. 450
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kannada, Kannada
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Modern Kannada
Language Position
3131
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
kn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
kan
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
kan
ISO 639 3
dzo
kan
ISO 639 6
dzo
kan
Glottocode
nucl1307
nucl1305
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-