1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
India
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
1.9 Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Tibetan Language
Not Available
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
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
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
Kuzoozangpo La
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
lek shom ay zim
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Not Available
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Not Available
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
Not Available
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Tsip maza
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Log Jay Gay
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Tsip maza
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,100.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
700.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.64 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.17 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Ngalop people
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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