Countries
Bhutan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
India
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
India
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Armenian
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9524
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3017
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Tsip maza
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Laya
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Greece
How Many People Speak
1,100.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Griko
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Italy
How Many People Speak
700.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
130,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
425
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.18 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
dzongkha
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Dzongkha
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
17th Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Modern Greek
Language Position
3174
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
ell
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
gre
ISO 639 3
dzo
ell
ISO 639 6
dzo
ells
Glottocode
nucl1307
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data Available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic