The Sound of the Bhutanese / Dzongkha language (Numbers, Greetings & Story)

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Dzongkha / Bhutanese (རྫོང་ཁ་)
Native to: Bhutan
Ethnicity: Bhutanese
Native speakers: 171,080 (2013)
Total speakers: 640,000
Language family: Sino-Tibetan
is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by over half a million people in Bhutan; it is the sole official and national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan.[4] The Tibetan alphabet is used to write Dzongkha.
The word dzongkha means "the language of the palace"; dzong means "palace" and kha is language. As of 2013, Dzongkha had 171,080 native speakers and about 640,000 total speakers.
Dzongkha and its dialects are the native tongue of eight western districts of Bhutan (viz. Wangdue Phodrang, Punakha, Thimphu, Gasa, Paro, Ha, Dagana and Chukha). There are also some native speakers near the Indian town of Kalimpong, once part of Bhutan but now in North Bengal.
Dzongkha was declared the national language of Bhutan in 1971. Dzongkha study is mandatory in all schools, and the language is the lingua franca in the districts to the south and east where it is not the mother tongue. The 2003 Bhutanese film Travellers and Magicians is in Dzongkha.
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[@umniareport7385]

Bhutan is one of my two absolute favorite countries along with Switzerland, literally the pearl of the modern world. I wish this people happiness and peace

[@tibetan.music.universe]

I'm Tibetan (from central Tibet) and I understood like 80% of this. This language is separate from Tibetan but I can understand it far better than I understand the Kham or Amdo dialects of the same Tibetan language.

[@Shareenear]

France: Imagine having 11 leters and pronouncing 4 of them
Bhutan and Tibet: *are you challenging us?*

[@bjap1563]

You should ask a Ladakhi speaker otherwise.

[@dalubwikaan161]

I love Bhutan. I love how peaceful it is.

[@DolmaTsering7]

I'm tibetan and it's so similar with tibetan language. I think I already know 90% of this.

[@joseg.solano1891]

This language looks interesting. Could someone apply to make a Dzongkha course on Duolingo?

[@thomasdemersmartin481]

Thank you to do this!!!
I live in Thimbu, Butan🇧🇹

[@molly9905]

I'm from Myanmar. That is kinda similar to Burmese(Myanmar). For example-numbers and I. That has another same word too

[@hangcua7522]

I come from Vietnam, I also want to learn Bhutanese language, I also like this language, I find Bhutanese and Tibetan languages ​​similar in pronunciation.

[@nanhom2217]

Bhutanese numbers are so similar with Burmese.

[@lalinmawia2871]

Their numbers(1-10) are very close similar to Mizo(Lusei) viz,1-khat(Pakhat), 2-Hnih((Pahnih), 3-Thum(Pathum), 4-Li(Pali), 5-Nga(Panga), 6-Ruk(Paruk), 7-Sarih(Pasarih), 8-Riat(Pariat), 9-Kua(Pakau), 10-Sawm

[@imafan-tasticfanofthekrewh6073]

I am Bhutanese

[@islmhhh4987]

Wow, first time meeting one! How are you doing? I kinda want to visit Bhutan...

[@kalaallisut9232]

Hello Bhutan is cool ?

[@pliktley1]

What is the difference between your first and second challenge? I love them both!

[@MrGbhattacharyya]

Is there any such video in Tshangla language of Sherchop people of East Bhutan?

[@Lolz-Lolz]

I wanna speak Bhutanese / Dzongkha so badly

[@rofikulkhan8284]

Thanks

[@---lm1me]

ཡ་ཡ་བཏུབ་བས།

[@florenttechnetium3217]

Exactly Tibetan...

[@isitsafeforme]

It sounds like a mix of indian, korean, & french

[@sainathowaimarma2173]

Some numbers are exactly same as my language like sum 3 and 5 nga ....is that coincidence? 😲😯

[@FLDE]

Dzongkha is related to Chinese, and the Chinese number system was borrowed into a lot of other languages. What’s your mother tongue?

[@SaraiStylesss]

I Actually Have A Dzongkha Keyboard

[@niwatori4202]

I think that the pronouncation of the Dzongkha numbers are a bit familiar to the Japanese ones, except for 6, 7 and 8

[@diamondstudios2568]

How would you write "Aidan" in this language?

[@owaischgaming7200]

My friends are balti speaker they understand it 91 %

[@ekvideo280]

Its like a balti language 🙂

[@phuntshoteechophel6375]

🇧🇹❤️

[@kuldeeptripathi3084]

I am from India. Can you translate 100000 words English to bhutani language?

[@SaraiStylesss]

རྫོང་ཁ་

[@beingfree7172]

Sounds similar to Utsang Tibetan .

[@sklu309]

how do you say " what is your name?" in Tibetan and Bhutanese?
i would like to know that... in meitei (which i belong) we say it " Nang gi ming kei kouge /kouwi?

[@o0...957]

I don't know about Bhutanese and Tibetan, but in Bodo/Boro language we say "Nwng(pronounced similarly to Nang) ni mung a ma?"

[@baqikenny]

In tibet i think usually: khedrand ming gangyin? and then u answer ngai ming ___ yin.(my name is ..)

[@leotv0811]

I want is languages alphatbet

[@anjalidevi7168]

Kuzu zangpo la.

[@BuoneFeste377]

🇧🇹👍

[@ElementEvilTeam]

sounds like tibetan

[@indians.stand.with.palestine]

The Bhutanese language is similar then Tibetan language...

[@SaraiStylesss]

༡༠

[@pixylated69]

is it only me or it kinda sounds like korean

[@shrooms679]

The child or female speaking sounds like French a bit

[@SaraiStylesss]

སྐུ་གཟུགས་བཟང་པོ། ཁྱད་ག་དེ་སྦེ་ཡོད?

[@ekvideo280]

Yari chi hal yot

[@Tiffany-lp3vj]

Bro Bhutanese sounds like a anime character

[@ZetaR0yszawa]

Why do I hear this language sounds closely like Hindi??

[@crisantinapangilinan8375]

དཕཔདགཕངཕངབཔབནམཔམུམིམམཕཕམཤྤསཕཙཕཙཕཙཕཙཕསཕཤཡཙིཅུཅོུ