Countries
Burma
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
-
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2195
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1930
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Bwakeye
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Urakoze
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Ndagusavye
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Ndasubiza
Tsip maza
Bye
N’agasaga
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Laya
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Lunana
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
990,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Shubi
Adap
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
153,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
rundi
dzongkha
German Name
Kirundi
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Ngalop people
Origin
1500
17th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Dzongkha
Language Position
8631
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
run
dzo
ISO 639 3
run
dzo
ISO 639 6
run
dzo
Glottocode
rund1242
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-