Countries
Bhutan
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9537
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3046
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Mhoro
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Waita zvako
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Manheru
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Masikati
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Mangwanani
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
Tsip maza
Ndineurombo
Bye
Log Jay Gay
bye
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Laya
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
1,100.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Karanga
Where They Speak
Bhutan
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
700.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Bhutan
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
130,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
dzongkha
shona
German Name
Dzongkha
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Shona people
Origin
17th Century
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Shona
Language Position
31107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
sna
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
sna
ISO 639 3
dzo
sna
ISO 639 6
dzo
sna
Glottocode
nucl1307
core1255
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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