Countries
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
India
Bhutan
Second Language
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Israel, Mauritius
India
Regulated By
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Konkani Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5295
18
247
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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
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
Tsip maza
Bye
बाय (Bāya)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Maharashtrian Konkani
Laya
Where They Speak
Kokan
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
2,400,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Varhadi
Lunana
Where They Speak
Vidarbha
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khandeshi
Adap
Where They Speak
Khandesh
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
424
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
71.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.10 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
68.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मराठी (marāṭhī)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
marathe
dzongkha
German Name
Marathi
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Marathi people
Ngalop people
Origin
10th century
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Marathi
Dzongkha
Language Position
1731
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mr
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mar
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
mar
dzo
ISO 639 3
mar
dzo
ISO 639 6
mar
dzo
Glottocode
mara1378
nucl1307
Linguasphere
omr
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-