Countries
Philippines
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Bhutan
Second Language
Philippines
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Hiligaynon Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Island of Cebu
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2195
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1630
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
3 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hoy
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Salamat
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Maayong Gabii
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Maayong Gabii
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Maayong Buntag
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Palihug
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Ikasubo ko
Tsip maza
Bye
Babay
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Ekskyus mi
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Boholano
Laya
Where They Speak
Bohol
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Southern Kana
Lunana
Where They Speak
southern Leyte
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
North Kana
Adap
Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
21.00 million0.17 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
14.50 million0.47 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Visayan
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
cebuano
dzongkha
German Name
Cebuano
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[sɛbuˈɑno]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Cebuano people
Ngalop people
Origin
16th century
17th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cebuano
Dzongkha
Language Position
6231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Cebuano Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ceb
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
ceb
dzo
ISO 639 3
ceb
dzo
ISO 639 6
ceb
dzo
Glottocode
cebu1242
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-