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
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Dialect 2
Kartlian
Lunana
Where They Speak
Kartli
Bhutan
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Bhutan
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
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Dzongkha
Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Glottocode
nucl1302
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Georgian and Dzongkha Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Georgian and Dzongkha greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Georgian and Dzongkha language. Georgian word for "Hello" is გამარჯობა (gamarjoba) or Dzongkha word for "Thank You" is Kaadinchhey La. Find more of such common Georgian Greetings and Dzongkha Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Georgian vs Dzongkha Difficulty
The Georgian vs Dzongkha difficulty level basically depends on the number of Georgian Alphabets and Dzongkha Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Georgian and Dzongkha are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Georgian and Dzongkha, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Georgian is 44 weeks while to learn Dzongkha time required is 38 weeks.