Countries
Bhutan
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
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Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Tibetan Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9527
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
38 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kuzoozangpo La
Halo
Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
piye kabare?
Good Night
lek shom ay zim
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Sugeng énjing
Please
བསྐྱར་མ་
matur nuwun
Sorry
Tsip maza
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Log Jay Gay
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Tsip maza
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Laya
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,100.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Lunana
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
700.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Adap
Arekan
Where They Speak
Bhutan
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
130,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
416
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.64 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.17 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.47 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
dzongkha
javanais
German Name
Dzongkha
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
17th Century
450 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
Tibeto-Burman
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Javanese
Language Position
3111
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dzongkha
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
dz
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dzo
jav
ISO 639 2/B
dzo
jav
ISO 639 3
dzo
jav
ISO 639 6
dzo
jav
Glottocode
nucl1307
java1253
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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Agglutinative