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Dzongkha
Dzongkha

Maithili
Maithili



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Dzongkha and Maithili

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Countries

Countries

Bhutan
India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Bhutan
India, Nepal

Second Language

India
Nepal

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.
  • Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
  • Maithili has rich literature.

Similar To

Sikkimese Language
Bhojpuri Language

Derived From

Tibetan Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9547
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3022
9 60
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Scripts

Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari

Writing Direction

-
-

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
pranam

Thank You

Kaadinchhey La
dhanyabad

How Are You?

Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Aahan kehan chhi ?

Good Night

lek shom ay zim
Śubharātri

Good Evening

ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
shubh sandhya

Good Afternoon

ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
dopahar ke bad namaskar

Good Morning

ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Suprabhaat

Please

བསྐྱར་མ་
kripaya

Sorry

Tsip maza
maf karai

Bye

Log Jay Gay
Alavidā

I Love You

Nga cheu lu ga
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi

Excuse Me

Tsip maza
kripaya

Dialects

Dialect 1

Laya
Tharuwat

Where They Speak

Bhutan
Nepal

How Many People Speak

1,100.0035,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Lunana
Madhubani

Where They Speak

Bhutan
North India

How Many People Speak

700.0035,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Adap
Khortha

Where They Speak

Bhutan
Deoghar, France

How Many People Speak

130,000.0035,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

415
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.64 million32.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.41 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.17 million27.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.47 million2.80 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)

Alternative Names

Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia

French Name

dzongkha
maithili

German Name

Dzongkha
Maithili

Pronunciation

[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈmaitʰili]

Ethnicity

Ngalop people
Maithil

History

Origin

17th Century
14th century

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
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Branch

Tibeto-Burman
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Dzongkha
Standard Maithili

Language Position

3140
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dzongkha
Maithili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

dz
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dzo
mai

ISO 639 2/B

dzo
mai

ISO 639 3

dzo
mai

ISO 639 6

dzo
mai

Glottocode

nucl1307
mait1250

Linguasphere

No data Available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Language Morphological Typology

-
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Dzongkha and Maithili Alphabets

Dzongkha and Maithili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dzongkha and Maithili. In Dzongkha Alphabets there are 95 letters while in Maithili Alphabets there are 47 letters. To learn Dzongkha and Maithili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dzongkha and Maithili 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 Maithili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dzongkha and Maithili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Dzongkha and Maithili Speaking population

Dzongkha and Maithili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dzongkha and Maithili languages can be compared. The total count of Dzongkha and Maithili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 %. 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 Maithili on Dzongkha vs Maithili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dzongkha and Maithili Language Codes

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