Countries
Bhutan
Rajastan, India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Rajastan, India
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Nepal, Pakistan
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Gujarati Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9542
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3032
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
khammaghani
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
dhanyavaad
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Kikan ho sa?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
shubh raatri
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Shubh Honjh
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Shubh Befar
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Shubh Havar
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
kirpa
Sorry
Tsip maza
Maaf Karo
Bye
Log Jay Gay
bye
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
main tanne pyaar karoon
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
maaf karo
Dialect 1
Laya
Jogi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
1,100.0014,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Bagri
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
700.0014,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Dhundhari
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
130,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million22.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million14.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Marwari
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
French Name
dzongkha
marvari
German Name
Dzongkha
Marwari
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[məˈrwɑːɾi]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Marwari or Marwadi
Origin
17th Century
16
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Marwari
Language Position
3172
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
dz
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
mwr
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
mwr
ISO 639 3
dzo
mwr
ISO 639 6
dzo
mwr
Glottocode
nucl1307
raja1256
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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