Countries
Bhutan
Burkina Faso
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Dagbani Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3016
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Kia ora
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Laafi bala
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Laafi beme ?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Ne y yungo
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
ne y zabre
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Kia ora
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Ne y yibeogo
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
gafare
Sorry
Tsip maza
gafare
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Wend na kon-d nindaare
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Y gafare
Dialect 1
Laya
Ouapadoupou
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
1,100.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Saremde
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
700.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Taolende
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
130,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million7.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million7.60 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)
Mosse
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
French Name
dzongkha
moré
German Name
Dzongkha
Mossi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[mɔ̀ːsì]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Mossi
Origin
17th Century
11th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Western Sudanic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Gur (Voltaic)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Mossi
Language Position
3137
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Mossi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
mos
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
mos
ISO 639 3
dzo
mos
ISO 639 6
dzo
mos
Glottocode
nucl1307
moss1236
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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