Countries
Wales
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Wales
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
India
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
English Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
British Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2995
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Helô
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Diolch
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Nos da
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Bore da
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Tsip maza
Bye
Hwyl
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Laya
Where They Speak
Argentina
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
38,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Lunana
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
700,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Adap
Where They Speak
Powys
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
700,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
gallois
dzongkha
German Name
Kymrisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Welsh people
Ngalop people
Origin
9th Century
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Celtic
-
Branch
Brythonic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
No early forms
Standard Forms
Welsh
Dzongkha
Language Position
3131
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
cy
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
wel
dzo
ISO 639 3
cym
dzo
ISO 639 6
cym
dzo
Glottocode
wels1247
nucl1307
Linguasphere
50-ABA
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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