Countries
Bhutan
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
India, Pakistan
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9544
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
517
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3027
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
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Right-To-Left, 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
Assalām ‘alaikum
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
سہا مسا
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Hach ch'i
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
مهربانی کر
Sorry
Tsip maza
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Khuda hāfiz
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Dialect 1
Laya
Kashtawari
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
How Many People Speak
1,100.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Poguli
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Pogul and Paristan valleys
How Many People Speak
700.006,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Rambani
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
130,000.005,600,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million5.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million5.42 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
French Name
dzongkha
kashmiri
German Name
Dzongkha
Kaschmiri
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[kəːʃur]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Kashmiris or koshur
Origin
17th Century
12th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Kashmiri
Language Position
3123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
ks
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
kas
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
kas
ISO 639 3
dzo
kas
ISO 639 6
dzo
kas
Glottocode
nucl1307
kash1277
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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