Countries
India
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Munda Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3095
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Henda ho
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Adi Johar
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
দয়া করে
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Tsip maza
Bye
Hariau
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Mahali
Laya
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Lunana
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Adap
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
santal
dzongkha
German Name
Santali
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Ngalop people
Origin
20th century
17th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Dzongkha
Language Position
4131
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
sat
dzo
ISO 639 3
sat
dzo
ISO 639 6
sat
dzo
Glottocode
sant1410
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-