Countries
Bhutan
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Bhutan
  
Russia
  
Second Language
India
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
India
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Tibetan Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Not Available
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Not Available
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Not Available
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Tsip maza
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Log Jay Gay
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Laya
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Lunana
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Adap
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan
  
Novgorod
  
Total No. Of Dialects
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.17 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million
  
37
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
  
Russki
  
French Name
dzongkha
  
russe
  
German Name
Dzongkha
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
  
Russians
  
Origin
17th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
dz
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
dzo
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1307
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Dzongkha and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dzongkha and Russian language. Dzongkha word for "Hello" is Kuzoozangpo La or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Dzongkha Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dzongkha vs Russian Difficulty
The Dzongkha vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dzongkha Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dzongkha and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dzongkha is Not Available while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.