Countries
Bhutan
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
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
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- There is no space left between words, only between phrases or sentences in Lao language.
- The Lao alphabets has been reformed many times over the past 50 years.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Thai Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9553
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
528
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3027
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Thai and Lao Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
Tsip maza
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Laya
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Laos
How Many People Speak
1,100.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Laos
How Many People Speak
700.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Central Lao
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Laos
How Many People Speak
130,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.22 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
French Name
dzongkha
lao
German Name
Dzongkha
Laotisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Lao people
Origin
17th Century
1283 CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
-
Tai
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Lao
Language Position
3143
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Lao Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
lao
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
lao
ISO 639 3
dzo
lao
ISO 639 6
dzo
lao
Glottocode
nucl1307
laoo1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Isolating