Countries
Bhutan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
South Africa
Second Language
India
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9557
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3050
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
Sawubona
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
unjani
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
okuhle ekuseni
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Ngiyacela
Sorry
Tsip maza
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Log Jay Gay
bye
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Laya
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,100.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
700.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
130,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
dzongkha
zoulou
German Name
Dzongkha
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Zulu people
Origin
17th Century
19
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Deep Zulu
Language Position
3187
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
zul
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
zul
ISO 639 3
dzo
zul
ISO 639 6
dzo
zul
Glottocode
nucl1307
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
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