1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.6 National Language
1.8 Second Language
India
Namibia, South Africa
1.9 Speaking Continents
1.10 Minority Language
India
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.11 Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.13 Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.14 Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Dutch Language
1.15 Derived From
Tibetan Language
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
lek shom ay zim
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Log Jay Gay
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Lunana
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.64 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.17 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
0.47 million10.30 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not available
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology