Countries
Bhutan
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
India
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
India
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9544
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3032
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
sannu
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
gode ku
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
yaya dai
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
barka da rana
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
mai kyau safe
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Don Allah
Sorry
Tsip maza
yi hakuri
Bye
Log Jay Gay
sai anjima
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Laya
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,100.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Niger
How Many People Speak
700.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Niger
How Many People Speak
130,000.0050.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million35.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
dzongkha
haoussa
German Name
Dzongkha
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
17th Century
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Chadic
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Hausa
Language Position
3134
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
hau
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
hau
ISO 639 3
dzo
hau
ISO 639 6
dzo
hau
Glottocode
nucl1307
haus1257
Linguasphere
No data Available
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional