1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Bhutan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
India
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Dzongkha Development Commission
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Sikkimese Language
Not Available
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
Kuzoozangpo La
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
Kaadinchhey La
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
lek shom ay zim
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Not Available
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
Not Available
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Nga cheu lu ga
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,100.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
700.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.64 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.17 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
0.47 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Dzongkha
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating