Countries
Bhutan
China, Nepal
National Language
Bhutan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
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Derived From
Tibetan Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
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དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
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ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
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སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
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thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Tsip maza
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Laya
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Lunana
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Adap
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
China
How Many People Speak
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Total No. Of Dialects
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Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
dzongkha
tibétain
German Name
Dzongkha
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not available
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Ethnicity
Ngalop people
tibetan people
Origin
17th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
nucl1307
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Dzongkha and Tibetan Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Dzongkha and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Dzongkha and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dzongkha are spoken in different Dzongkha Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dzongkha vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dzongkha dialects include: Laya, Lunana. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Dzongkha and Tibetan Speaking population
Dzongkha and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dzongkha and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Dzongkha and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dzongkha and Tibetan on Dzongkha vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Dzongkha and Tibetan Language Codes
Dzongkha and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dzongkha and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.