Countries
Bhutan
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
India
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
Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Marathi
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9552
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Namaskar
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
kaso assa?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Chike
Sorry
Tsip maza
Maf kor
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Adeus
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Laya
Antruz
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Goa
How Many People Speak
1,100.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
700.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
130,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million7.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million8.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
dzongkha
konkani
German Name
Dzongkha
Konkani
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Konkanis
Origin
17th Century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Kokani
Language Position
3123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
dz
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
kok
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
kok
ISO 639 3
dzo
kok
ISO 639 6
dzo
kok
Glottocode
nucl1307
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-