1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
India
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Tibetan Language
Not Available
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
unjani
3.4 Good Night
lek shom ay zim
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
Not Available
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
Not Available
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Lunana
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan
Georgia, South Africa
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 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
0.47 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
isiZulu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
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
99-AUT-fg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available