Countries
Bhutan
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9535
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3030
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Tsip maza
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Laya
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,100.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
700.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
China
How Many People Speak
130,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
dzongkha
tibétain
German Name
Dzongkha
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
tibetan people
Origin
17th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
3129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
dz
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
bod
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
tib
ISO 639 3
dzo
bod
ISO 639 6
dzo
bod
Glottocode
nucl1307
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-