1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
3.2 National Language
3.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
3.5 Speaking Continents
3.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
India
3.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Dzongkha Development Commission
3.8 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.
3.9 Similar To
Not Available
Sikkimese Language
3.10 Derived From
Not Available
Tibetan Language
4 Alphabets
4.1 Alphabets in
4.2 Alphabets
6.2 Phonology
6.2.1 How Many Vowels
6.4.3 How Many Consonants
7.2 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
7.3 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
7.4 Hard to Learn
7.4.1 Language Levels
7.7.1 Time Taken to Learn
8 Greetings
8.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kuzoozangpo La
8.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Kaadinchhey La
8.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
8.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
lek shom ay zim
8.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Not Available
8.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Not Available
8.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Not Available
8.9 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Not Available
8.10 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Tsip maza
8.11 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Log Jay Gay
8.12 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Nga cheu lu ga
8.13 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Tsip maza
9 Dialects
9.1 Dialect 1
9.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bhutan
9.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
10.4 Dialect 2
10.4.1 Where They Speak
10.4.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00700.00
700
80000000
11.8 Dialect 3
11.8.1 Where They Speak
11.8.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
12.2 Total No. Of Dialects
13 How Many People Speak
13.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million0.64 million
0.13
1200
13.3 Speaking Population
13.4 Native Speakers
1.20 million0.17 million
0.13
873
13.5.1 Second Language Speakers
13.5.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
13.5.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
13.5.4 French Name
13.5.5 German Name
13.6 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not available
13.7 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Ngalop people
14 History
14.1 Origin
14.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
14.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
14.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
14.3 Language Forms
14.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
14.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Dzongkha
14.3.3 Language Position
14.3.5 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
14.4 Scope
15 Code
15.1 ISO 639 1
15.2 ISO 639 2
15.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
15.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
15.3 ISO 639 3
15.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
15.5 Glottocode
15.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
15.7 Types of Language
15.7.1 Language Type
15.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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15.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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