Countries
Estonia, European Union
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
India
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Finnish
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2795
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1830
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
aitäh
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Head ööd
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Palun
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Vabandust
Tsip maza
Bye
Head aega
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Laya
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Lunana
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Adap
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
eesti keel
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
estonien
dzongkha
German Name
Estnisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Ngalop people
Origin
13th century
17th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Dzongkha
Language Position
2231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
est
dzo
ISO 639 3
est
dzo
ISO 639 6
est
dzo
Glottocode
esto1258
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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