Countries
Fiji, India
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Urdu
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4495
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
115
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3330
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
Tsip maza
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Laya
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
Lunana
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Adap
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
214
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
hindi
dzongkha
German Name
Hindi
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Ngalop people
Origin
7th Century
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Dzongkha
Language Position
531
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
hin
dzo
ISO 639 3
hin
dzo
ISO 639 6
hins
dzo
Glottocode
hind1269
nucl1307
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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