Countries
Bhutan
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Bhutan
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
India
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
India
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Tibetan Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Not Available
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Not Available
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Not Available
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Tsip maza
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Log Jay Gay
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Laya
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Lunana
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Adap
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.17 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million
  
37
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
  
Suomi
  
French Name
dzongkha
  
finnois
  
German Name
Dzongkha
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
17th Century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
dz
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
dzo
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1307
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Dzongkha and Finnish Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Dzongkha and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dzongkha and Finnish language. Dzongkha word for "Hello" is Kuzoozangpo La or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Dzongkha Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dzongkha vs Finnish Difficulty
The Dzongkha vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dzongkha Alphabets and Finnish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Dzongkha and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dzongkha and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dzongkha is Not Available while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.