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