Countries
Burkina Faso
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Dagbani Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2695
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1630
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kia ora
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Laafi bala
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Ne y yungo
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
ne y zabre
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
gafare
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
gafare
Tsip maza
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Y gafare
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Laya
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saremde
Lunana
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Taolende
Adap
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Mosse
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
moré
dzongkha
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Ngalop people
Origin
11th Century AD
17th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Mossi
Dzongkha
Language Position
3731
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
mos
dzo
ISO 639 3
mos
dzo
ISO 639 6
mos
dzo
Glottocode
moss1236
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-