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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Maldivian Language
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
Sinhala alphabet
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
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
lek shom ay zim
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Not Available
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Not Available
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Not Available
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Tsip maza
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Tsip maza
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.17 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
0.47 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Sinhalese people
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
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology