Countries
Bhutan
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
India
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
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9551
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3035
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Namaskara
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
yedde rathre
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
yedde kaande
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Daya maltadu
Sorry
Tsip maza
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Barpe
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Laya
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,100.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Jain
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
700.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Girijan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
130,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million1.70 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)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
dzongkha
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German Name
Dzongkha
Tulu
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Tuluva
Origin
17th Century
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Tulu
Language Position
3123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
tul
ISO 639 3
dzo
tcy
ISO 639 6
dzo
tcy
Glottocode
nucl1307
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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-
Language Morphological Typology
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