Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
India
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Czech Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4695
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3830
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
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
Ahoj
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Dobrú noc
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Prosím
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Pardón!
Tsip maza
Bye
Dovidenia
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Laya
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Lunana
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Adap
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.20 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
slovenčina
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
slovaque
dzongkha
German Name
Slowakisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Ngalop people
Origin
6th Century
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Western
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Slovak
Dzongkha
Language Position
2731
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sk
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
slo
dzo
ISO 639 3
slk
dzo
ISO 639 6
slk
dzo
Glottocode
slov1269
nucl1307
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-