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Dzongkha and Serbian


Serbian and Dzongkha


Countries

Countries
Bhutan  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
4  
11

National Language
Bhutan  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  

Second Language
India  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
India  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia  

Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  

Similar To
Sikkimese Language  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  

Derived From
Tibetan Language  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
95  
39
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
25  
15

Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille  
Cyrillic, Latin  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks  
14
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Kuzoozangpo La  
Здраво (Zdravo)  

Thank You
Kaadinchhey La  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  

How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?  
Како си? (Kako si?)  

Good Night
lek shom ay zim  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  

Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  

Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  

Please
བསྐྱར་མ་  
Молим (Molim)  

Sorry
Tsip maza  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  

Bye
Log Jay Gay  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  

I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga  
Волим те (Volim te)  

Excuse Me
Tsip maza  
Извините (Izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Laya  
Prizren-Timok  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Southeastern Serbia  

How Many People Speak
1,100.00  
99+
12,000,000.00  
35

Dialect 2
Lunana  
Smederevo–Vršac  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Serbia  

How Many People Speak
700.00  
99+
12,000,000.00  
34

Dialect 3
Adap  
Torlakian  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  

How Many People Speak
130,000.00  
99+
1,500,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
4  
4
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.64 million  
99+
8.70 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.07 %  
99+
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
0.17 million  
99+
8.70 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.47 million  
99+
12.00 million  
38

Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar  
Montenegrin  

French Name
dzongkha  
serbe  

German Name
Dzongkha  
Serbisch  

Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]  
[sr̩̂pskiː]  

Ethnicity
Ngalop people  
Serbs  

History

Origin
17th Century  
11th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
-  
-  

Branch
Tibeto-Burman  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Dzongkha  
Standard Serbian  

Language Position
31  
29
44  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha  
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
dz  
sr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
dzo  
srp  

ISO 639 2/B
dzo  
srp  

ISO 639 3
dzo  
srp  

ISO 639 6
dzo  
srp  

Glottocode
nucl1307  
serb1264  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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All Dzongkha and Serbian 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 Serbian dialects. Various dialects of Dzongkha and Serbian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dzongkha are spoken in different Dzongkha Speaking Countries whereas Serbian Dialects are spoken in different Serbian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dzongkha vs Serbian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dzongkha dialects include: Laya, Lunana. Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok , Smederevo–Vršac. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Dzongkha and Serbian Speaking population

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Dzongkha and Serbian Language Codes

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