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
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Marathi
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5295
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3630
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
kaso assa?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Chike
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Maf kor
Tsip maza
Bye
Adeus
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Antruz
Laya
Where They Speak
Goa
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Lunana
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Adap
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
7.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
konkani
dzongkha
German Name
Konkani
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Ngalop people
Origin
1209 A.D.
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Dzongkha
Language Position
2331
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
kok
dzo
ISO 639 3
kok
dzo
ISO 639 6
kok
dzo
Glottocode
goan1235
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-