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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Old German Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9552
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
Tsip maza
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Laya
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
1,100.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
700.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
130,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
40
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million14.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million14.10 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
dzongkha
sanskrit
German Name
Dzongkha
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
17th Century
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Sanskrit
Language Position
3123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
-
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
san
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
san
ISO 639 3
dzo
san
ISO 639 6
dzo
san
Glottocode
nucl1307
sans1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic