Countries
China, Nepal
Bhutan
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
India
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
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Sikkimese Language
Derived From
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Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
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Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
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Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
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Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
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Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Tsip maza
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Laya
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bhutan
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Lunana
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bhutan
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Adap
Where They Speak
China
Bhutan
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
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
tibétain
dzongkha
German Name
Tibetisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Ngalop people
Origin
c. 650
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Dzongkha
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1307
Linguasphere
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Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Dzongkha Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Dzongkha dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Dzongkha language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Dzongkha Dialects are spoken in different Dzongkha speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Dzongkha Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Dzongkha dialects include: Laya , Lunana. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Dzongkha Speaking population
Tibetan and Dzongkha speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Dzongkha languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Dzongkha Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Dzongkha on Tibetan vs Dzongkha where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Dzongkha Language Codes
Tibetan and Dzongkha language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Dzongkha Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.