Countries
Bhutan
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
India, Pakistan, Sindh
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Gujarati
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9564
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3042
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, 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
Assalam O Alaikum
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Meharbani
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Kehra haal aahin
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
tava kia aayo
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Sham Jo Salam
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Assalam o Alaikum
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Subho Bakhair
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Mehrbani
Sorry
Tsip maza
Moon khe afsos aahe
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Allah Wahi
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Maaf Kajo
Dialect 1
Laya
Siraiki
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Upper Sindh
How Many People Speak
1,100.0025,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Vicholi
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Central Sindh
How Many People Speak
700.0025,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Lari
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Lower Sindh
How Many People Speak
130,000.0025.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million29.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
سنڌي
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Sindhi
French Name
dzongkha
sindhi
German Name
Dzongkha
Sindhi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[sɪndi]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Sindhi people
Origin
17th Century
711 A.D
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Sindhi
Language Position
3150
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Sindhi
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
sd
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
snd
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
snd
ISO 639 3
dzo
snd
ISO 639 6
dzo
snd
Glottocode
nucl1307
sind1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
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