1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Bhutan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
India
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Dzongkha Development Commission
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
1.9 Similar To
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Sikkimese Language
1.10 Derived From
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Tibetan Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Kuzoozangpo La
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Kaadinchhey La
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
lek shom ay zim
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
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3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Not Available
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Nga cheu lu ga
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Bhutan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bhutan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00700.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Bhutan
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million0.64 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million0.17 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
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Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
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Tibeto-Burman
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Dzongkha
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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