Countries
Bhutan
China
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
China
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Uzbek Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9536
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3027
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
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
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
rakhmat
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
birdam
Sorry
Tsip maza
kachurung
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Khayr khosh
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Laya
Turpan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
China
How Many People Speak
1,100.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Hotan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
China
How Many People Speak
700.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Bhutan
China
How Many People Speak
130,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
47
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million10.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.47 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
dzongkha
ouïgour
German Name
Dzongkha
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Uyghur
Origin
17th Century
11
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Uyghur
Language Position
3198
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
dz
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
uig
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
uig
ISO 639 3
dzo
uig
ISO 639 6
dzo
uig
Glottocode
nucl1307
uigh1240
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-