Countries
European Union, Slovenia
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
India
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Serbo-Croatian
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2595
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2030
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Hvala
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Lahko noč
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Dober večer
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Prosim
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Oprostite
Tsip maza
Bye
Nasvidenje
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Ljubim te
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
Laya
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
80,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Resian
Lunana
Where They Speak
Italy
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Styrian
Adap
Where They Speak
Slovenia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
484
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
2.50 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Slovenščina
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
slovène
dzongkha
German Name
Slowenisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Slovenes
Ngalop people
Origin
972-1093
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
Slovene
Dzongkha
Language Position
2831
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovene Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sl
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slv
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
slv
dzo
ISO 639 3
slv
dzo
ISO 639 6
slv
dzo
Glottocode
slov1268
nucl1307
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-