Countries
Bhutan
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3029
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
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Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Silaw
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Sipas
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Şev xweş
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Bayanit bash
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Tsip maza
Bibûre
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Laya
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Bhutan
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,100.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
700.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
130,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
dzongkha
kurde
German Name
Dzongkha
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Kurds
Origin
17th Century
16th century CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Kurdish
Language Position
3114
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
dz
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
kur
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
kur
ISO 639 3
dzo
kur
ISO 639 6
dzo
kur
Glottocode
nucl1307
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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