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Dzongkha and Turkish


Turkish and Dzongkha


Countries

Countries
Bhutan  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
11  
5

National Language
Bhutan  
Turkey  

Second Language
India  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
India  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania  

Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission  
Turkish Language Association  

Interesting Facts
  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  
  • Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
  • Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  

Similar To
Sikkimese Language  
Azerbaijani Language  

Derived From
Tibetan Language  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
95  
39
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
30  
20
21  
11

Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks  
14
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Kuzoozangpo La  
Merhaba  

Thank You
Kaadinchhey La  
teşekkür ederim  

How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?  
Nasılsın?  

Good Night
lek shom ay zim  
İyi Geceler  

Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་  
İyi Akşamlar  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ  
Tünaydın  

Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ  
günaydın  

Please
བསྐྱར་མ་  
lütfen  

Sorry
Tsip maza  
üzgünüm  

Bye
Log Jay Gay  
Hoşçakal  

I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga  
Seni seviyorum  

Excuse Me
Tsip maza  
Afedersiniz  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Laya  
Azerbaijani Turkish  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey  

How Many People Speak
1,100.00  
99+
26,000,000.00  
25

Dialect 2
Lunana  
Crimean Turkish  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

How Many People Speak
700.00  
99+
480,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Adap  
Gagauz  

Where They Speak
Bhutan  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine  

How Many People Speak
130,000.00  
99+
140,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
4  
4
9  
9

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.64 million  
99+
75.00 million  
23

Speaking Population
0.07 %  
99+
0.95 %  
22

Native Speakers
0.17 million  
99+
60.00 million  
20

Second Language Speakers
0.47 million  
99+
15.00 million  
34

Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)  
Türkçe  

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

French Name
dzongkha  
turc  

German Name
Dzongkha  
Türkisch  

Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]  

Ethnicity
Ngalop people  
Turkish  

History

Origin
17th Century  
c. 1350  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Turkic Family  

Subgroup
-  
Turkic  

Branch
Tibeto-Burman  
Southwestern(Oghuz)  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish  

Standard Forms
Dzongkha  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)  

Language Position
31  
29
19  
17

Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha  
Turkish Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
dz  
tr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
dzo  
tur  

ISO 639 2/B
dzo  
tur  

ISO 639 3
dzo  
tur  

ISO 639 6
dzo  
tur  

Glottocode
nucl1307  
nucl1301  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
44-AAB-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Synthetic  

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

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Dzongkha and Turkish Speaking population

Dzongkha and Turkish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dzongkha and Turkish languages can be compared. The total count of Dzongkha and Turkish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 %. 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 Turkish on Dzongkha vs Turkish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dzongkha and Turkish Language Codes

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

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