National Language
Bhutan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
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
Cabinet of Georgia
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Tsip maza
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Laya
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Dialect 2
Lunana
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Kartli
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Pshavi
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
dzongkha
géorgien
German Name
Dzongkha
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Georgians
Origin
17th Century
5th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Kartvelian Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Modern Georgian
Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Georgian Sign Language
Glottocode
nucl1307
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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-
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic
Dzongkha and Georgian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Dzongkha and Georgian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dzongkha and Georgian language. Dzongkha word for "Hello" is Kuzoozangpo La or Georgian word for "Thank You" is გმადლობთ (gmadlobt). Find more of such common Dzongkha Greetings and Georgian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dzongkha vs Georgian Difficulty
The Dzongkha vs Georgian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dzongkha Alphabets and Georgian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Dzongkha and Georgian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dzongkha and Georgian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dzongkha is 38 weeks while to learn Georgian time required is 44 weeks.