Countries
India, Pakistan
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Bhutan
Second Language
Pakistan
India
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
India
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5295
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4030
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
براہ مہربانی
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
معاف کرنا
Tsip maza
Bye
الوداع
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Laya
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Lunana
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Adap
Where They Speak
South Asia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
ourdou
dzongkha
German Name
Urdu
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Ngalop people
Origin
12th Century CE
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Dzongkha
Language Position
2031
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
urd
dzo
ISO 639 3
urd
dzo
ISO 639 6
urd
dzo
Glottocode
urdu1245
nucl1307
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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