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
People's Republic of China
India
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Dzongkha Development Commission
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan 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
Devanagari
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Kuzoozangpo La
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Kaadinchhey La
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
lek shom ay zim
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Not Available
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Not Available
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Tsip maza
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Log Jay Gay
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Nga cheu lu ga
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Tsip maza
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.001,100.00
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?
30.00 million0.64 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million0.17 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not available
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Ngalop people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
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
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available