1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
India
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Language Academy of Nepal
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Tibetan Language
Sanskrit 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
Devanagari
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
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
lek shom ay zim
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
Not Available
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
Not Available
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Tsip maza
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
Log Jay Gay
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.11 I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Tsip maza
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,100.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.17 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
0.47 million5.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
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
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
Not Available
Agglutinative