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
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Old German Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Prakrit 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
20 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Tsip maza
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Not present
Laya
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
140,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Lunana
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
140,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Adap
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
140,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
04
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million0.64 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
14.10 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-0.47 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
sanskrit
dzongkha
German Name
Sanskrit
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Ngalop people
Origin
2000 B.C.
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Dzongkha
Language Position
2331
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
san
dzo
ISO 639 3
san
dzo
ISO 639 6
san
dzo
Glottocode
sans1269
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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