Countries
India, Pakistan
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Pakistan, Sindh
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
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Gujarati
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6495
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4230
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Devanagari
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Assalam O Alaikum
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Meharbani
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Kehra haal aahin
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
tava kia aayo
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Sham Jo Salam
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Assalam o Alaikum
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Subho Bakhair
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Mehrbani
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Moon khe afsos aahe
Tsip maza
Bye
Allah Wahi
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Maaf Kajo
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Siraiki
Laya
Where They Speak
Upper Sindh
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Vicholi
Lunana
Where They Speak
Central Sindh
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Lari
Adap
Where They Speak
Lower Sindh
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
25.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
29.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.39 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
سنڌي
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Sindhi
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
sindhi
dzongkha
German Name
Sindhi-Sprache
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[sɪndi]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Sindhi people
Ngalop people
Origin
711 A.D
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sindhi
Dzongkha
Language Position
5031
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Sindhi
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sd
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
snd
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
snd
dzo
ISO 639 3
snd
dzo
ISO 639 6
snd
dzo
Glottocode
sind1272
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-