Countries
Bhutan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Russia
Second Language
India
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
India
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Tsip maza
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Laya
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
1,100.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Olonets
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Olonets
How Many People Speak
700.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
130,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
413
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Русский
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Russki
French Name
dzongkha
russe
German Name
Dzongkha
Russisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Russians
Origin
17th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Russian
Language Position
317
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
rus
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
rus
ISO 639 3
dzo
rus
ISO 639 6
dzo
rus
Glottocode
nucl1307
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic