Countries
Bhutan
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Latvia
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Latvian State Language Center
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9533
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3024
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Sveiki
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Paldies
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Labdien
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Labrīt
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
lūdzu
Sorry
Tsip maza
Piedodiet!
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Laya
Livonian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Latvia
How Many People Speak
1,100.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Lunana
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Latvia
How Many People Speak
700.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Adap
High Latvian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
130,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Lettish
French Name
dzongkha
letton
German Name
Dzongkha
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Latvians or Letts
Origin
17th Century
1530
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Baltic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Latvian
Language Position
319
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
dz
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
lav
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
lav
ISO 639 3
dzo
lav
ISO 639 6
dzo
lav
Glottocode
nucl1307
latv1249
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic