Countries
China, Nepal
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
India
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3595
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3030
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Tsip maza
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Laya
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Lunana
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Adap
Where They Speak
China
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million0.64 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million0.17 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
tibétain
dzongkha
German Name
Tibetisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Ngalop people
Origin
c. 650
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Dzongkha
Language Position
2931
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
tib
dzo
ISO 639 3
bod
dzo
ISO 639 6
bod
dzo
Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-