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
-
Tibetan Language
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
-
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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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
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
314
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
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
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
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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