Countries
Georgia
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3395
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2830
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Tsip maza
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Laya
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
80,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Lunana
Where They Speak
Kartli
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Adap
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
204
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million0.64 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million0.17 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
géorgien
dzongkha
German Name
Georgisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Ngalop people
Origin
5th Century
17th Century
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Southern
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Dzongkha
Language Position
12031
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
geo
dzo
ISO 639 3
kat
dzo
ISO 639 6
kat
dzo
Glottocode
nucl1302
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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