Countries
Bhutan
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Philippines
Second Language
India
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- 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.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9521
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3016
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Hoy
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Salamat
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Maayong Buntag
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Palihug
Sorry
Tsip maza
Ikasubo ko
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Babay
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Laya
Boholano
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bohol
How Many People Speak
1,100.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Bhutan
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
700.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
North Kana
Where They Speak
Bhutan
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
130,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million14.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Visayan
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
dzongkha
cebuano
German Name
Dzongkha
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Cebuano people
Origin
17th Century
16th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
3162
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
ceb
ISO 639 3
dzo
ceb
ISO 639 6
dzo
ceb
Glottocode
nucl1307
cebu1242
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-