Home
Languagevs


Serbian and Dzongkha


Dzongkha and Serbian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  
Bhutan  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
1  
14

National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  
Bhutan  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
India  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia  
India  

Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  
Dzongkha Development Commission  

Interesting Facts
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  

Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  
Sikkimese Language  

Derived From
-  
Tibetan Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
95  
39

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
25  
15
30  
20

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
38 weeks  
14

Greetings

Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)  
Kuzoozangpo La  

Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  
Kaadinchhey La  

How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)  
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?  

Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  
lek shom ay zim  

Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་  

Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ  

Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ  

Please
Молим (Molim)  
བསྐྱར་མ་  

Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  
Tsip maza  

Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  
Log Jay Gay  

I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)  
Nga cheu lu ga  

Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)  
Tsip maza  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok  
Laya  

Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00  
35
1,100.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac  
Lunana  

Where They Speak
Serbia  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00  
34
700.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Torlakian  
Adap  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  
Bhutan  

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
99+
130,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
4  
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.70 million  
99+
0.64 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.07 %  
99+

Native Speakers
8.70 million  
99+
0.17 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
12.00 million  
38
0.47 million  
99+

Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)  

Alternative Names
Montenegrin  
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar  

French Name
serbe  
dzongkha  

German Name
Serbisch  
Dzongkha  

Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]  
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]  

Ethnicity
Serbs  
Ngalop people  

History

Origin
11th Century  
17th Century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
-  

Branch
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Serbian  
Dzongkha  

Language Position
44  
99+
31  
29

Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)  
Signed Dzongkha  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
sr  
dz  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
srp  
dzo  

ISO 639 2/B
srp  
dzo  

ISO 639 3
srp  
dzo  

ISO 639 6
srp  
dzo  

Glottocode
serb1264  
nucl1307  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-g  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

Summary >>
<< Code

All Serbian and Dzongkha Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Serbian and Dzongkha dialects. Various dialects of Serbian and Dzongkha language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Serbian are spoken in different Serbian Speaking Countries whereas Dzongkha Dialects are spoken in different Dzongkha speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Serbian vs Dzongkha Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok, Smederevo–Vršac. Dzongkha dialects include: Laya , Lunana. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Compare Most Difficult Languages

Serbian and Dzongkha Speaking population

Serbian and Dzongkha speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Dzongkha languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Dzongkha Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Serbian and Dzongkha on Serbian vs Dzongkha where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Dzongkha Language Codes

Serbian and Dzongkha language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Serbian and Dzongkha Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

Most Difficult Languages

Most Difficult Languages

» More Most Difficult Languages

Compare Most Difficult Languages

» More Compare Most Difficult Languages