Countries
Bhutan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
16
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
India
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
India
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
German and English Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
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
dankjewel
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
goede Nacht
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
goedemiddag
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
goedemorgen
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
alsjeblieft
Sorry
Tsip maza
sorry
Bye
Log Jay Gay
vaarwel
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
pardon
Dialect 1
Laya
Gronings
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
1,100.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
700.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
130,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
47
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million22.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
dzongkha
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Dzongkha
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Dutch people
Origin
17th Century
AD 450-500
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Dutch
Language Position
3148
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
nld
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
dut
ISO 639 3
dzo
nld
ISO 639 6
dzo
nld
Glottocode
nucl1307
mode1257
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic