Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Bhutan
Second Language
Afganistan
India
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
India
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3395
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Tsip maza
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Laya
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
30,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Lunana
Where They Speak
Olonets
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Adap
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
134
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
2.33 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Русский
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Russki
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
russe
dzongkha
German Name
Russisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Russians
Ngalop people
Origin
1000 AD
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Dzongkha
Language Position
731
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
rus
dzo
ISO 639 3
rus
dzo
ISO 639 6
rus
dzo
Glottocode
russ1263
nucl1307
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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