Countries
New Zealand
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
New Zealand
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Australia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Māori Language Commission
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Tahitian Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2095
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1030
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Mauruuru koutou
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
E pēhea ana koe ?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Night pai
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
pai ahiahi
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Afternoon pai
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Morning pai
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Tēnā
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Aroha mai
Tsip maza
Bye
poroporoaki
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Aroha ahau ki a koe
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
tukua ahau
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
South Island Māori
Laya
Where They Speak
New Zealand
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
150,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western North Island Maori
Lunana
Where They Speak
New Zealand
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
150,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori
Adap
Where They Speak
New Zealand
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
150,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.18 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.18 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.10 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
te Reo Māori
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
New Zealand Maori
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
maori
dzongkha
German Name
Maori-Sprache
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈmaɔɾi]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Māori people
Ngalop people
Origin
1814
17th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Polynesian
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maori
Dzongkha
Language Position
2631
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maori Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mi
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mri
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
mao
dzo
ISO 639 3
mri
dzo
ISO 639 6
mri
dzo
Glottocode
maor1246
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-