Countries
India, Pakistan
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
-
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4495
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
175
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2730
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, 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
Assalām ‘alaikum
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
سہا مسا
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
مهربانی کر
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Tsip maza
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
Laya
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Poguli
Lunana
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
6,100,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rambani
Adap
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.60 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.42 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
kashmiri
dzongkha
German Name
Kaschmiri
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
Ngalop people
Origin
12th 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
Kashmiri
Dzongkha
Language Position
2331
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ks
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kas
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
kas
dzo
ISO 639 3
kas
dzo
ISO 639 6
kas
dzo
Glottocode
kash1277
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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