Countries
Bhutan
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
India
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Czech Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9546
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3038
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
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
Ahoj
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Dobré ráno
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Prosím
Sorry
Tsip maza
Pardón!
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Dovidenia
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Laya
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
1,100.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
700.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
130,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
dzongkha
slovaque
German Name
Dzongkha
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Slovaks
Origin
17th Century
6th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Slovak
Language Position
3127
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
slk
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
slo
ISO 639 3
dzo
slk
ISO 639 6
dzo
slk
Glottocode
nucl1307
slov1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic