Countries
United States of America
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
United States of America
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
North America
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
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Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Navajo language is tonal language, as it heavily relies on pitch to distinguish between similar words.
- Navajo ethinc group is 2nd largest Native American group.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Apache Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3695
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3430
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Yá'át'ééh
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Ahéhee'
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Yá'át'ééh
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Yá'át'ééh abíní
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
T'aa shoodi
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Nízhdził
Tsip maza
Bye
Hágoónee’
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Ayóó ánííníshí
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Shoohá
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Navajo1
Laya
Where They Speak
Arizona
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
170,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Navajo2
Lunana
Where They Speak
New Mexico
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
170,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Navajo3
Adap
Where They Speak
Utah
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
120,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.17 million0.47 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Navaho
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
navaho
dzongkha
German Name
Navajo-Sprache
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈnævəhoʊ]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Navajo people
Ngalop people
Origin
1500 CE
17th Century
Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Athapascan
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Navajo
Dzongkha
Language Position
2931
1
120
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Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nv
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nav
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
nav
dzo
ISO 639 3
nav
dzo
ISO 639 6
nav
dzo
Glottocode
nava1243
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic
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