Countries
Bhutan
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Munda Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9530
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Henda ho
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
संध्यायान
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Boge Setak’
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
দয়া করে
Sorry
Tsip maza
দুঃখিত
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Hariau
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Laya
Mahali
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
1,100.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
700.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
130,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million6.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
dzongkha
santal
German Name
Dzongkha
Santali
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
17th Century
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Santali
Language Position
3141
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
sat
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
sat
ISO 639 3
dzo
sat
ISO 639 6
dzo
sat
Glottocode
nucl1307
sant1410
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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