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
-
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Bengali and Assamese
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4295
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
115
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3130
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
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
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
ଦୟାକରି
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Tsip maza
Bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Baleswari
Laya
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ganjami
Lunana
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
33,800,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kosli
Adap
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
520,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
33.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
oriya
dzongkha
German Name
Oriya-Sprache
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Odias
Ngalop people
Origin
3 BC
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Odia
Dzongkha
Language Position
3231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
or
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ori
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
ori
dzo
ISO 639 3
ori
dzo
ISO 639 6
ori
dzo
Glottocode
macr1269
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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