Countries
Bhutan
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Lao Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9553
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
520
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3033
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Khmer
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
សូម
Sorry
Tsip maza
សូរី
Bye
Log Jay Gay
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Laya
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,100.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
700.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
130,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
dzongkha
khmer central
German Name
Dzongkha
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
17th Century
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Modern Khmer
Language Position
311
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
khm
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
khm
ISO 639 3
dzo
khm
ISO 639 6
dzo
khm
Glottocode
nucl1307
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data Available
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating