Countries
Bhutan
Afganistan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Pakistan
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Pashto language is originated in the regions of Paktika and Paktia areas of Afghanistan.
- The first Pashto poem was written in the 7th century.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Persian and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9544
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3029
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Arabic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
(salaam) سلام
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
(lotfan) لطفا
Sorry
Tsip maza
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bye
Log Jay Gay
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Dialect 1
Laya
Central Pashto
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,100.006,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Northern Pashto
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
700.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Wanetsi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
130,000.0095,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
421
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.58 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million50.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
(paṧto) پښتو
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
French Name
dzongkha
pachto
German Name
Dzongkha
Paschtu
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Pashtun
Origin
17th Century
1651
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Language Position
3182
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Pashto Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
ps
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
pus
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
pus
ISO 639 3
dzo
pus
ISO 639 6
dzo
pus
Glottocode
nucl1307
pash1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional