Countries
Bhutan
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
China, Guangdong
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Hawaii
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- 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.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9528
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
您好
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
谢谢
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
你好吗？
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
晚安
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
晚上好
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
下午好
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
早上好
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
请
Sorry
Tsip maza
遗憾
Bye
Log Jay Gay
再见
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
我爱你
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
原谅我
Dialect 1
Laya
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Bhutan
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
1,100.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
700.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Adap
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
130,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
dzongkha
cantonais
German Name
Dzongkha
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Han Chinese
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
Dzongkha
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
311
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
dz
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
yue
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
yue
ISO 639 3
dzo
No data available
ISO 639 6
dzo
yue
Glottocode
nucl1307
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-