Countries
Bhutan
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Thailand
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Lao Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9544
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
532
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3044
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Thai
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
Tsip maza
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Laya
Isan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Isan
How Many People Speak
1,100.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
700.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
130,000.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
49
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.85 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million20.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million40.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
dzongkha
thaï
German Name
Dzongkha
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Origin
17th Century
1283 CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
-
Tai
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Thai
Language Position
3147
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
tha
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
tha
ISO 639 3
dzo
tha
ISO 639 6
dzo
tha
Glottocode
nucl1307
thai1261
Linguasphere
No data Available
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating