Countries
Bhutan
Wales
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Wales
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
India
Argentina, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Welsh Language Commissioner
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
English Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
British Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9529
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Helô
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Diolch
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Sut ydych chi?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Nos da
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Noswaith dda
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
P'nawn da
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Bore da
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
os gwelwch yn dda
Sorry
Tsip maza
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Hwyl
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Dw i'n dy garu di
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Esgusodwch fi
Dialect 1
Laya
Patagonian Welsh
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Argentina
How Many People Speak
1,100.0038,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Y Wyndodeg
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Gwynedd
How Many People Speak
700.00700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Y Bowyseg
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Powys
How Many People Speak
130,000.00700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million0.70 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Cymraeg
French Name
dzongkha
gallois
German Name
Dzongkha
Kymrisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Welsh people
Origin
17th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Celtic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Brythonic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Welsh
Language Position
3131
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Welsh Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
cy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
cym
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
wel
ISO 639 3
dzo
cym
ISO 639 6
dzo
cym
Glottocode
nucl1307
wels1247
Linguasphere
No data Available
50-ABA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional