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Dzongkha
Dzongkha

Khasi
Khasi



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Countries

Countries

Bhutan
Meghalaya

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Bhutan
Bangladesh, India

Second Language

India
-

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

India
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Regulated By

Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts

  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  • Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
  • There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.

Similar To

Sikkimese Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages

Derived From

Tibetan Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9523
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3014
9 60
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Scripts

Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

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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Greetings

Hello

Kuzoozangpo La
Kumno

Thank You

Kaadinchhey La
Khublei

How Are You?

Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Kumno phi long?

Good Night

lek shom ay zim
thia sukh

Good Evening

ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
babha janmiet

Good Afternoon

ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
babha noph-phai-sngi

Good Morning

ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
khublei

Please

བསྐྱར་མ་
Sngewbha

Sorry

Tsip maza
Map

Bye

Log Jay Gay
khublei

I Love You

Nga cheu lu ga
ieit ieit

Excuse Me

Tsip maza
map a nga

Dialects

Dialect 1

Laya
Bhoi

Where They Speak

Bhutan
-

How Many People Speak

1,100.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Lunana
Nonglung

Where They Speak

Bhutan
-

How Many People Speak

700.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Adap
Cherrapunji

Where They Speak

Bhutan
-

How Many People Speak

130,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

45
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.64 million0.84 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.17 million0.84 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.47 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Ka Ktien

Alternative Names

Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia

French Name

dzongkha
khasi

German Name

Dzongkha
Khasi-Sprache

Pronunciation

[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈkʰɑsi]

Ethnicity

Ngalop people
Khasi people

History

Origin

17th Century
1200 AD

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

Tibeto-Burman
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No Early Forms

Standard Forms

Dzongkha
Khasi

Language Position

3140
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dzongkha
Khasi Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

dz
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dzo
kha

ISO 639 2/B

dzo
kha

ISO 639 3

dzo
kha

ISO 639 6

dzo
kha

Glottocode

nucl1307
khas1269

Linguasphere

No data Available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Language Morphological Typology

-
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Dzongkha and Khasi Alphabets

Dzongkha and Khasi Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dzongkha and Khasi. In Dzongkha Alphabets there are 95 letters while in Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Dzongkha and Khasi languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dzongkha and Khasi languages. The Dzongkha phonology consist Dzongkha vowels and Dzongkha consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Dzongkha greetings vs Khasi greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dzongkha and Khasi are Most Spoken Languages.

All Dzongkha and Khasi 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 Khasi dialects. Various dialects of Dzongkha and Khasi language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dzongkha are spoken in different Dzongkha Speaking Countries whereas Khasi Dialects are spoken in different Khasi speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dzongkha vs Khasi Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dzongkha dialects include: Laya, Lunana. Khasi dialects include: Bhoi , Nonglung. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Dzongkha and Khasi Speaking population

Dzongkha and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dzongkha and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Dzongkha and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dzongkha and Khasi on Dzongkha vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dzongkha and Khasi Language Codes

Dzongkha and Khasi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dzongkha and Khasi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.