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Dzongkha and Khasi


Khasi and Dzongkha


Countries

Countries
Bhutan  
Meghalaya  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

National Language
Bhutan  
Bangladesh, India  

Second Language
India  
-  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
India  
-  

Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission  
-  

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  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
95  
39
23  
5

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
6  
3

How Many Consonants
30  
20
14  
4

Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille  
Bengali, Latin  

Writing Direction
-  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks  
14
44 weeks  
17

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
1,100.00  
99+
1,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Lunana  
Nonglung  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
-  

How Many People Speak
700.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Adap  
Cherrapunji  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
-  

How Many People Speak
130,000.00  
99+
1,500,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
4  
4
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.64 million  
99+
0.84 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.07 %  
99+
0.01 %  
99+

Native Speakers
0.17 million  
99+
0.84 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.47 million  
99+
1.50 million  
99+

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  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No Early Forms  

Standard Forms
Dzongkha  
Khasi  

Language Position
31  
29
40  
37

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
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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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.

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Dzongkha and Khasi Speaking population

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