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Gujarati and Dzongkha


Dzongkha and Gujarati


Countries

Countries
India  
Bhutan  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

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
-  
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

Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
47  
27
95  
39

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
5  
2

How Many Consonants
31  
21
30  
20

Scripts
Devanagari  
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks  
4
38 weeks  
14

Greetings

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  

Dialects

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
46,000,000.00  
16
1,100.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Kharwa  
Lunana  

Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
56,000,000.00  
13
700.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Surati  
Adap  

Where They Speak
-  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
56,000,000.00  
13
130,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
4  
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
60.00 million  
27
0.64 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.74 %  
25
0.07 %  
99+

Native Speakers
50.00 million  
22
0.17 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
55.00 million  
16
0.47 million  
99+

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  

History

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
23  
21
31  
29

Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati  
Signed Dzongkha  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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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All Gujarati and Dzongkha Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Gujarati and Dzongkha dialects. Various dialects of Gujarati and Dzongkha language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Gujarati are spoken in different Gujarati Speaking Countries whereas Dzongkha Dialects are spoken in different Dzongkha speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Gujarati vs Dzongkha Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Gujarati dialects include: Kathiyawadi, Kharwa. Dzongkha dialects include: Laya , Lunana. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Gujarati and Dzongkha Speaking population

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Gujarati and Dzongkha Language Codes

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