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Dzongkha
Dzongkha

Japanese
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Countries

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
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Alphabets

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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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

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
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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)

History

Origin

17th Century
1185

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

Tibeto-Burman
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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

Code

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

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Agglutinative, Synthetic

Dzongkha and Japanese Alphabets

Dzongkha and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dzongkha and Japanese. In Dzongkha Alphabets there are 95 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Dzongkha and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dzongkha and Japanese languages. The Dzongkha phonology consist Dzongkha vowels and Dzongkha consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Dzongkha greetings vs Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dzongkha and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Dzongkha and Japanese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Dzongkha and Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Dzongkha and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dzongkha are spoken in different Dzongkha Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dzongkha vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dzongkha dialects include: Laya, Lunana. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Dzongkha and Japanese Speaking population

Dzongkha and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dzongkha and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Dzongkha and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dzongkha and Japanese on Dzongkha vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dzongkha and Japanese Language Codes

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