Countries
Bhutan
West Java
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bhutan
Indonesia
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Madurese and Malay Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
9533
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, Sundanese
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks40 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Halo
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
Nuhun
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Kumaha kabarna?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
Wilujeng kulem
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Wilujeng wengi
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Wilujeng siang
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Wilujeng énjing
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
Mangga
Sorry
Tsip maza
Hapunten
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Wilujeng angkat
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Punten
Dialect 1
Laya
Western dialect
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Banten
How Many People Speak
1,100.0040,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Lunana
Northern dialect
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bogor
How Many People Speak
700.0040,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Adap
Priangan dialect
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Bandung
How Many People Speak
130,000.0040,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.64 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million39.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Basa Sunda
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Priangan, Sunda
French Name
dzongkha
soundanais
German Name
Dzongkha
Sundanesisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[sʊnˈdæniːs]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
Origin
17th Century
5th century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
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Indonesian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Sundanese
Language Position
3142
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Sundanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
su
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
sun
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
sun
ISO 639 3
dzo
sun
ISO 639 6
dzo
sun
Glottocode
nucl1307
sund1251
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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