Countries
Bhutan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
South Africa
Second Language
India
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
India
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Dutch Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9532
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3017
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
hallo
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Dankie
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
goeie nag
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Goeie middag
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
goeie more
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
asseblief
Sorry
Tsip maza
jammer
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Totsiens
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Laya
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
1,100.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
700.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Namibia
How Many People Speak
130,000.007.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million10.30 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Cape Dutch
French Name
dzongkha
afrikaans
German Name
Dzongkha
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Afrikaners
Origin
17th Century
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
3123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
afr
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
afr
ISO 639 3
dzo
afr
ISO 639 6
dzo
afrs
Glottocode
nucl1307
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic