Countries
Bhutan
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
India
Second Language
India
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Israel, Mauritius
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Konkani Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9552
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Tsip maza
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
बाय (Bāya)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
Dialect 1
Laya
Maharashtrian Konkani
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Kokan
How Many People Speak
1,100.002,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Varhadi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Vidarbha
How Many People Speak
700.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Khandeshi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Khandesh
How Many People Speak
130,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
442
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million71.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %1.10 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million68.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
मराठी (marāṭhī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
French Name
dzongkha
marathe
German Name
Dzongkha
Marathi
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Marathi people
Origin
17th Century
10th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Marathi
Language Position
3117
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
mr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
mar
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
mar
ISO 639 3
dzo
mar
ISO 639 6
dzo
mar
Glottocode
nucl1307
mara1378
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-