Countries
Bhutan
European Union, Slovenia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
India
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9525
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Halo
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Hvala
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Kako se imate?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Lahko noč
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Dober dan
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Dobro jutro
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Prosim
Sorry
Tsip maza
Oprostite
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Nasvidenje
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Laya
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Hungary, Slovenia
How Many People Speak
1,100.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Lunana
Resian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Italy
How Many People Speak
700.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Styrian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Slovenia
How Many People Speak
130,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
448
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Slovenščina
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
dzongkha
slovène
German Name
Dzongkha
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Slovenes
Origin
17th Century
972-1093
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
Slovene
Language Position
3128
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Slovene Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
sl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
slv
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
slv
ISO 639 3
dzo
slv
ISO 639 6
dzo
slv
Glottocode
nucl1307
slov1268
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional