Countries
Indonesia
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
India
Regulated By
-
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2795
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks38 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
matur nuwun
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
matur nuwun
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
Tsip maza
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Laya
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Lunana
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Adap
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
164
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
javanais
dzongkha
German Name
Javanisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Ngalop people
Origin
450 AD
17th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Dzongkha
Language Position
1131
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
jav
dzo
ISO 639 3
jav
dzo
ISO 639 6
jav
dzo
Glottocode
java1253
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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