Countries
Bhutan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
South Africa
Second Language
India
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
India
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9553
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3043
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Molo
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Unjani
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Molo
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Ndicela
Sorry
Tsip maza
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Laya
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Bhutan
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,100.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Thembu
Where They Speak
Bhutan
South Africa
How Many People Speak
700.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
South Africa
How Many People Speak
130,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
49
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
dzongkha
xhosa
German Name
Dzongkha
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
17th Century
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
isiXhosa
Language Position
3121
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
xho
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
xho
ISO 639 3
dzo
xho
ISO 639 6
dzo
xho
Glottocode
nucl1307
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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