1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Tibetan Language
Not Available
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
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
你好吗？
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.64 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.17 million52.00 million
0.13
873
1.3.4 Second Language Speakers
1.3.5 Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Kwang Tung Wa
1.4.1 Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
1.4.2 French Name
1.4.3 German Name
1.5 Pronunciation
Not available
Not Available
1.6 Ethnicity
Ngalop people
Not Available
2 History
2.1 Origin
17th Century
17th century
2.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
2.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
2.2.2 Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
2.3 Language Forms
2.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
2.3.2 Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Cantonese
2.3.3 Language Position
2.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
2.4 Scope
3 Code
3.1 ISO 639 1
3.2 ISO 639 2
3.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
3.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
3.3 ISO 639 3
3.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
3.5 Glottocode
3.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
3.7 Types of Language
3.7.1 Language Type
3.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
3.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available