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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
  • Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
  • Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
35
Rank: 17 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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24
Rank: 19 (Overall)
5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
30
Rank: 20 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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960,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
1,200,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Wu
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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80,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
1,400,000.00
Rank: 23 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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60,000,000.00
Rank: 2 (Overall)
1,800,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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10
Rank: 10 (Overall)
6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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1,051.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall)
1.20 million
Rank: 85 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
About Chinese L..
873.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
1.20 million
Rank: 80 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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178.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
chinois
tibétain
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Tibetisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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5.5 Ethnicity
Han
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
1250 BC
c. 650
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zh
bo
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zho
bod
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
chi
tib
7.3 ISO 639 3
zho
bod
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sini1245
tibe1272
7.6 Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Chinese and Tibetan Alphabets

Chinese and Tibetan Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chinese and Tibetan. In Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Tibetan Alphabets there are 35 letters. To learn Chinese and Tibetan languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chinese and Tibetan languages. The Chinese phonology consist Chinese vowels and Chinese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Chinese greetings vs Tibetan greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chinese and Tibetan are Most Spoken Languages.

All Chinese and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Chinese and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Chinese and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Chinese are spoken in different Chinese Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Chinese vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Chinese dialects include: Mandarin, Wu. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Chinese and Tibetan Speaking population

Chinese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chinese and Tibetan on Chinese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chinese and Tibetan Language Codes

Chinese and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.