Countries
Bhutan
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Japan
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
India
Palau
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Korean Language
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9599
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3014
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Tsip maza
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Log Jay Gay
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Laya
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
1,100.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Hakata
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
700.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Kansai
Where They Speak
Bhutan
kansai
How Many People Speak
130,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
431
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %1.90 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.17 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
日本語
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Nihongo
French Name
dzongkha
japonais
German Name
Dzongkha
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
17th Century
1185
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Japanese
Language Position
318
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
jpn
ISO 639 3
dzo
jpn
ISO 639 6
dzo
jpn
Glottocode
nucl1307
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data Available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic