Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
India
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2895
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2030
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks38 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
谢谢
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
你好吗？
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
晚安
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
晚上好
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
下午好
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
早上好
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
请
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
遗憾
Tsip maza
Bye
再见
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
我爱你
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
原谅我
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Laya
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Lunana
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Adap
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
cantonais
dzongkha
German Name
Kantonesisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Ngalop people
Origin
17th century
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Dzongkha
Language Position
131
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
yue
dzo
ISO 639 3
No data available
dzo
ISO 639 6
yue
dzo
Glottocode
cant1236
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-