Countries
Bhutan
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Malta
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
India
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9530
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3024
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Ħello
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Grazzi
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Kif int?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Tsip maza
Skużani!
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Ċaw
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Laya
Qormi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Malta
How Many People Speak
1,100.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Malta
How Many People Speak
700.00500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Not Present
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
130,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
42
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million0.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Malti
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Malti
French Name
dzongkha
maltais
German Name
Dzongkha
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Maltese
Origin
17th Century
c. 1470
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Maltese
Language Position
3125
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
mlt
ISO 639 3
dzo
mlt
ISO 639 6
dzo
mlt
Glottocode
nucl1307
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic