Countries
Bhutan
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Bhutan
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
India
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
India
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Tibetan Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Not Available
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Not Available
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Not Available
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Tsip maza
  
آسف
  
Bye
Log Jay Gay
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Laya
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Lunana
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Adap
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
Total No. Of Dialects
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.17 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million
  
37
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
dzongkha
  
arabe
  
German Name
Dzongkha
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
17th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
dz
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
dzo
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1307
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic