Countries
Bhutan
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Pakistan
Second Language
India
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
India
India
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9552
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3040
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Arabic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
خوش آمديد
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
گڈ مارننگ
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
Tsip maza
معاف کرنا
Bye
Log Jay Gay
الوداع
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Laya
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
1,100.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Bhutan
India
How Many People Speak
700.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Bhutan
South Asia
How Many People Speak
130,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Bihari
French Name
dzongkha
ourdou
German Name
Dzongkha
Urdu
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
17th Century
12th Century CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
3120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
urd
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
urd
ISO 639 3
dzo
urd
ISO 639 6
dzo
urd
Glottocode
nucl1307
urdu1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional