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Dzongkha
Dzongkha

Lao
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Countries

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

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

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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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Greetings

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་
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)

Good Afternoon

ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)

Good Morning

ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
ສະ​ບາຍ​ດີ​ຕອນ​ເຊົ້າ (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
ຂ້ອຍ​ຮັກ​ເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)

Excuse Me

Tsip maza
ຂໍ​ໂທດ (kho othd)

Dialects

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

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

History

Origin

17th Century
1283 CE

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Tai-Kadai Family

Subgroup

-
Tai

Branch

Tibeto-Burman
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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

Code

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

Dzongkha and Lao Alphabets

Dzongkha and Lao Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dzongkha and Lao. In Dzongkha Alphabets there are 95 letters while in Lao Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Dzongkha and Lao languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dzongkha and Lao languages. The Dzongkha phonology consist Dzongkha vowels and Dzongkha consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Dzongkha greetings vs Lao greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dzongkha and Lao are Most Spoken Languages.

All Dzongkha and Lao 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 Lao dialects. Various dialects of Dzongkha and Lao language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dzongkha are spoken in different Dzongkha Speaking Countries whereas Lao Dialects are spoken in different Lao speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dzongkha vs Lao Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dzongkha dialects include: Laya, Lunana. Lao dialects include: Vientiane Lao , Northern Lao. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Dzongkha and Lao Speaking population

Dzongkha and Lao speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dzongkha and Lao languages can be compared. The total count of Dzongkha and Lao Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Lao language is 0.22 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dzongkha and Lao on Dzongkha vs Lao where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dzongkha and Lao Language Codes

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