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
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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
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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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Dzongkha and Tibetan 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 Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dzongkha and Tibetan language. Dzongkha word for "Hello" is Kuzoozangpo La or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Dzongkha Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dzongkha vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Dzongkha vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dzongkha Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dzongkha and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dzongkha is Not Available while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.
