Countries
India
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
India
Regulated By
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Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Bengali Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4795
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3130
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
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
18 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Tsip maza
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Laya
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kharwa
Lunana
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Adap
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
goudjrati
dzongkha
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Ngalop people
Origin
15
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Dzongkha
Language Position
2331
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
guj
dzo
ISO 639 3
guj
dzo
ISO 639 6
guj
dzo
Glottocode
guja1252
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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