Countries
Bhutan
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Lithuania
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
India
Poland
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Latvian
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9532
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Sveiki
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Ačiū
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Labanakt
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Laba diena
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Labas rytas
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Prašom
Sorry
Tsip maza
atsiprašau
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Ate
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Laya
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
1,100.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
700.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Curonian
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
130,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
dzongkha
lituanien
German Name
Dzongkha
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Lithuanians
Origin
17th Century
c. 1503
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Lithuanian
Language Position
3144
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
lit
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
lit
ISO 639 3
dzo
lit
ISO 639 6
dzo
lit
Glottocode
nucl1307
lith1251
Linguasphere
No data Available
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic