Countries
Bhutan
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
India
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.
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9542
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3031
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
Tsip maza
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Laya
Baleswari
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
1,100.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Ganjami
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
700.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Kosli
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
130,000.00520,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million33.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
dzongkha
oriya
German Name
Dzongkha
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Odias
Origin
17th Century
3 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Odia
Language Position
3132
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
dz
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
ori
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
ori
ISO 639 3
dzo
ori
ISO 639 6
dzo
ori
Glottocode
nucl1307
macr1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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