Countries
Bhutan
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
China, Mongolia
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Turkish Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9535
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
513
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
Tsip maza
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Laya
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
1,100.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
700.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
130,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
dzongkha
mongol
German Name
Dzongkha
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Mongols
Origin
17th Century
1224-1225
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
-
Mongolian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
3126
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
dz
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
mon
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
mon
ISO 639 3
dzo
mon
ISO 639 6
dzo
mon
Glottocode
nucl1307
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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