Countries
Bhutan
New Zealand
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
New Zealand
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Australia, Oceania
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Māori Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Tahitian Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9520
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3010
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Hello
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Mauruuru koutou
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
E pēhea ana koe ?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Night pai
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
pai ahiahi
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Afternoon pai
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Morning pai
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Tēnā
Sorry
Tsip maza
Aroha mai
Bye
Log Jay Gay
poroporoaki
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Aroha ahau ki a koe
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
tukua ahau
Dialect 1
Laya
South Island Māori
Where They Speak
Bhutan
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
1,100.00150,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Lunana
Western North Island Maori
Where They Speak
Bhutan
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
700.00150,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Adap
Eastern North Island Maori
Where They Speak
Bhutan
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
130,000.00150,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million0.18 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million0.18 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million0.10 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
te Reo Māori
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
New Zealand Maori
French Name
dzongkha
maori
German Name
Dzongkha
Maori-Sprache
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈmaɔɾi]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Māori people
Origin
17th Century
1814
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Polynesian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Maori
Language Position
3126
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Maori Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
mi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
mri
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
mao
ISO 639 3
dzo
mri
ISO 639 6
dzo
mri
Glottocode
nucl1307
maor1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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