Countries
India
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
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
-
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5195
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3530
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
yedde rathre
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
yedde kaande
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Daya maltadu
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
Tsip maza
Bye
Barpe
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Laya
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Lunana
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Girijan
Adap
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
2.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
-
dzongkha
German Name
Tulu
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Ngalop people
Origin
14
17th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Tulu
Dzongkha
Language Position
2331
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
tul
dzo
ISO 639 3
tcy
dzo
ISO 639 6
tcy
dzo
Glottocode
tulu1258
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-