Countries
Bhutan
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
France, Spain
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Spanish
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9527
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
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
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Kaixo
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Zer moduz?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Gabon
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Egun on
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Mesedez
Sorry
Tsip maza
Barkatu
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Agur
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Laya
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
France
How Many People Speak
1,100.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Lunana
Souletin
Where They Speak
Bhutan
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
700.008,700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Adap
Biscayan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Spain
How Many People Speak
130,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million7.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million7.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million0.70 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Euskara
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
dzongkha
basque
German Name
Dzongkha
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Basque people
Origin
17th Century
c. 1000
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Basque
Language Position
3130
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Basque Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
dz
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
eus
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
baq
ISO 639 3
dzo
eus
ISO 639 6
dzo
eus
Glottocode
nucl1307
basq1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative