Countries
Bhutan
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bhutan
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
-
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9521
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3019
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Bwakeye
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Urakoze
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Urakomeye?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Mwaramutse
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Ndagusavye
Sorry
Tsip maza
Ndasubiza
Bye
Log Jay Gay
N’agasaga
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Laya
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
1,100.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Lunana
Ha
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
700.00990,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Adap
Shubi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
130,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
dzongkha
rundi
German Name
Dzongkha
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
17th Century
1500
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Kirundi
Language Position
3186
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
dz
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
run
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
run
ISO 639 3
dzo
run
ISO 639 6
dzo
run
Glottocode
nucl1307
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-