Countries
Bhutan
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Malaysia
Second Language
India
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Thailand
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3024
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Hai
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
terima kasih
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Selamat pagi
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
sila
Sorry
Tsip maza
maaf
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Laya
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
1,100.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Pekal
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
700.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Musi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
130,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
424
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million175.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million98.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
dzongkha
malais
German Name
Dzongkha
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Malaysian people
Origin
17th Century
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
3154
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
msa
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
may
ISO 639 3
dzo
zsm
ISO 639 6
dzo
may
Glottocode
nucl1307
stan1306
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative