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Language Comparison: Dzongkha vs Tetum
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| Aspect | Dzongkha | Tetum |
|---|---|---|
Family | Sino-Tibetan | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 640,000 | Around 800,000 speakers (including second-language speakers) |
Features | The national language of Bhutan, used in official communication and education | An Austronesian language with significant Portuguese influence, serving as one of the two official languages of Timor-Leste; simple grammar and shared vocabulary with Indonesian/Malay |
Countries | Bhutan | Timor-Leste and Indonesia. |
Writing System | Tibetan script | Latin script |
Tonal | Yes | No |
Grammatical Cases | Yes, uses a system of nominative-accusative and ergative markers | No, relies on word order and prepositions |
Derived From | Classical Tibetan, shares many linguistic features with other Tibetan dialects | Proto-Austronesian, with heavy Portuguese lexical influence |
Loanwords | From Sanskrit, Tibetan, and English | From Portuguese, Malay/Indonesian, and Arabic |
Dialects | Includes Western Dzongkha, Eastern Dzongkha, Southern Dzongkha, and Central Dzongkha | Includes Tetun Dili (urban variety with heavy Portuguese influence) and Tetun Terik (more traditional and rural variety) |
Alphabets | ཀ, ཁ, ག, ང, ཅ, ཆ, ཇ, ཉ, ཏ, ཐ, ད, ན, པ, ཕ, བ, མ, ཙ, ཚ, ཛ, ཝ, ཞ, ཟ, འ, ཡ, ར, ལ, ཤ, ས, ཧ, ཨ | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
Family
Dzongkha
Sino-Tibetan
Tetum
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian
Speakers
Dzongkha
Approximately 640,000
Tetum
Around 800,000 speakers (including second-language speakers)
Features
Dzongkha
The national language of Bhutan, used in official communication and education
Tetum
An Austronesian language with significant Portuguese influence, serving as one of the two official languages of Timor-Leste; simple grammar and shared vocabulary with Indonesian/Malay
Countries
Dzongkha
Bhutan
Tetum
Timor-Leste and Indonesia.
Writing System
Dzongkha
Tibetan script
Tetum
Latin script
Tonal
Dzongkha
Yes
Tetum
No
Grammatical Cases
Dzongkha
Yes, uses a system of nominative-accusative and ergative markers
Tetum
No, relies on word order and prepositions
Derived From
Dzongkha
Classical Tibetan, shares many linguistic features with other Tibetan dialects
Tetum
Proto-Austronesian, with heavy Portuguese lexical influence
Loanwords
Dzongkha
From Sanskrit, Tibetan, and English
Tetum
From Portuguese, Malay/Indonesian, and Arabic
Dialects
Dzongkha
Includes Western Dzongkha, Eastern Dzongkha, Southern Dzongkha, and Central Dzongkha
Tetum
Includes Tetun Dili (urban variety with heavy Portuguese influence) and Tetun Terik (more traditional and rural variety)
Alphabets
Dzongkha
ཀ, ཁ, ག, ང, ཅ, ཆ, ཇ, ཉ, ཏ, ཐ, ད, ན, པ, ཕ, བ, མ, ཙ, ཚ, ཛ, ཝ, ཞ, ཟ, འ, ཡ, ར, ལ, ཤ, ས, ཧ, ཨ
Tetum
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Language Facts:
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