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Countries

Countries

Japan
Bhutan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Bhutan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Asia

Minority Language

Palau
India

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Dzongkha Development Commission

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.

Similar To

Korean Language
Sikkimese Language

Derived From

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Tibetan Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9995
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1430
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks38 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Kuzoozangpo La

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Kaadinchhey La

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
lek shom ay zim

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
བསྐྱར་མ་

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Tsip maza

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Log Jay Gay

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Nga cheu lu ga

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Tsip maza

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Laya

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.001,100.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Lunana

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.00700.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Adap

Where They Speak

kansai
Bhutan

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.00130,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

314
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million0.64 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million0.17 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million0.47 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar

French Name

japonais
dzongkha

German Name

Japanisch
Dzongkha

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Ngalop people

History

Origin

1185
17th Century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
Tibeto-Burman

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Japanese
Dzongkha

Language Position

831
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Signed Dzongkha

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
dz

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
dzo

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
dzo

ISO 639 3

jpn
dzo

ISO 639 6

jpn
dzo

Glottocode

nucl1643
nucl1307

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Japanese and Dzongkha Alphabets

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

All Japanese and Dzongkha 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 Japanese and Dzongkha dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Dzongkha language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Dzongkha Dialects are spoken in different Dzongkha speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Dzongkha Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Dzongkha dialects include: Laya , Lunana. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Dzongkha Speaking population

Japanese and Dzongkha speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Dzongkha languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Dzongkha Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dzongkha language is 0.07 %. 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 Japanese and Dzongkha on Japanese vs Dzongkha where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Dzongkha Language Codes

Japanese and Dzongkha language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Japanese and Dzongkha Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.