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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Bhutan
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Bhutan
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
India
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Tibetan Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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95
Rank: 39 (Overall)
35
Rank: 17 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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30
Rank: 20 (Overall)
30
Rank: 20 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
lek shom ay zim
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
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དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
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ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
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སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
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thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Tsip maza
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Log Jay Gay
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Tsip maza
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Laya
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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1,100.00
Rank: 52 (Overall)
1,200,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Lunana
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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700.00
Rank: 45 (Overall)
1,400,000.00
Rank: 23 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Adap
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
1,800,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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0.64 million
Rank: 88 (Overall)
1.20 million
Rank: 85 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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5.3 Native Speakers
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0.17 million
Rank: 87 (Overall)
1.20 million
Rank: 80 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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0.47 million
Rank: 37 (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
dzongkha
tibétain
5.3.5 German Name
Dzongkha
Tibetisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not available
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5.5 Ethnicity
Ngalop people
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
c. 650
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Tibeto-Burman
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
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7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
dz
bo
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
dzo
bod
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
dzo
tib
7.3 ISO 639 3
dzo
bod
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
nucl1307
tibe1272
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
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7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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Dzongkha and Tibetan Alphabets

Dzongkha and Tibetan Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dzongkha and Tibetan. In Dzongkha Alphabets there are 95 letters while in Tibetan Alphabets there are 35 letters. To learn Dzongkha and Tibetan languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dzongkha and Tibetan languages. The Dzongkha phonology consist Dzongkha vowels and Dzongkha consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Dzongkha greetings vs Tibetan greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dzongkha and Tibetan are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Dzongkha and Tibetan Speaking population

Dzongkha and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dzongkha and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Dzongkha and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dzongkha and Tibetan on Dzongkha vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dzongkha and Tibetan Language Codes

Dzongkha and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dzongkha and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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