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Dzongkha
Dzongkha

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Countries

Countries

Bhutan
Ethiopia, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Bhutan
Ethiopia

Second Language

India
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

India
Somalia

Regulated By

Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts

  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.

Similar To

Sikkimese Language
Somali Language

Derived From

Tibetan Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9534
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3024
9 60
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Scripts

Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin

Writing Direction

-
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

38 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kuzoozangpo La
akkam

Thank You

Kaadinchhey La
Galatoomi

How Are You?

Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Attam jirta/jirtu?

Good Night

lek shom ay zim
Nagayattii buli

Good Evening

ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Akkam waarite

Good Afternoon

ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Attam oolte / ooltan

Good Morning

ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Attam bulte/bultan

Please

བསྐྱར་མ་
Maaloo

Sorry

Tsip maza
naa dhiisi

Bye

Log Jay Gay
Nagayattii!

I Love You

Nga cheu lu ga
Sin jaaladha

Excuse Me

Tsip maza
Maaloo na dabarsi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Laya
Borana

Where They Speak

Bhutan
Ethiopia, Kenya

How Many People Speak

1,100.004,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Lunana
Orma

Where They Speak

Bhutan
Kenya

How Many People Speak

700.0066,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Adap
Wata

Where They Speak

Bhutan
Kenya

How Many People Speak

130,000.0013,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

417
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.64 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.36 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.17 million24.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.47 million35.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Afaan Oromo

Alternative Names

Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Afaan Oromoo

French Name

dzongkha
galla

German Name

Dzongkha
Galla-Sprache

Pronunciation

[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ɔrɔmɔ]

Ethnicity

Ngalop people
Oromos

History

Origin

17th Century
16

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

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Cushitic

Branch

Tibeto-Burman
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Dzongkha
Afaan Oromo

Language Position

3191
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dzongkha
Oromo Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

dz
om

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dzo
orm

ISO 639 2/B

dzo
orm

ISO 639 3

dzo
orm

ISO 639 6

dzo
orm

Glottocode

nucl1307
nucl1736

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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Dzongkha and Oromo Alphabets

Dzongkha and Oromo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dzongkha and Oromo. In Dzongkha Alphabets there are 95 letters while in Oromo Alphabets there are 34 letters. To learn Dzongkha and Oromo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dzongkha and Oromo languages. The Dzongkha phonology consist Dzongkha vowels and Dzongkha consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Dzongkha greetings vs Oromo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dzongkha and Oromo are Most Spoken Languages.

All Dzongkha and Oromo Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Dzongkha and Oromo dialects. Various dialects of Dzongkha and Oromo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dzongkha are spoken in different Dzongkha Speaking Countries whereas Oromo Dialects are spoken in different Oromo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dzongkha vs Oromo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dzongkha dialects include: Laya, Lunana. Oromo dialects include: Borana , Orma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Dzongkha and Oromo Speaking population

Dzongkha and Oromo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dzongkha and Oromo languages can be compared. The total count of Dzongkha and Oromo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dzongkha and Oromo on Dzongkha vs Oromo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dzongkha and Oromo Language Codes

Dzongkha and Oromo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dzongkha and Oromo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.