Countries
Bhutan
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Sri Lanka
Second Language
India
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9554
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Tsip maza
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Laya
Vedda
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
1,100.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
700.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Bhutan
-
How Many People Speak
130,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
dzongkha
singhalais
German Name
Dzongkha
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Sinhalese people
Origin
17th Century
3
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3170
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
sin
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
sin
ISO 639 3
dzo
sin
ISO 639 6
dzo
sin
Glottocode
nucl1307
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional