About Tibetan Language | Tibetan | Alphabets in Tibetan

Countries

China, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Nepal, Tibet

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

China, India, Nepal

Regulated By

Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language

Interesting Facts

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.

Similar To

Nepali and Bhutanese Languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 17 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 20 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 1 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks

Rank: 6 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)

Thank You

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)

How Are You?

ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)

Good Night

གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)

Good Evening

དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།

Good Afternoon

ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།

Good Morning

སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)

Please

thu-je zig / ku-chee.

Sorry

ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)

Bye

ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)

I Love You

ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)

Excuse Me

དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།

Dialects

Dialect 1

Central Tibetan

Where They Speak

China, India, Nepal

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00

Rank: 60 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Khams Tibetan

Where They Speak

Bhutan, China

How Many People Speak

1,400,000.00

Rank: 60 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Amdo Tibetan

Where They Speak

China

How Many People Speak

1,800,000.00

Rank: 50 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.20 million

Rank: 85 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.05 %

Rank: 59 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

1.20 million

Rank: 80 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million

Rank: 47 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)

Alternative Names

Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang

French Name

tibétain

German Name

Tibetisch

Pronunciation

[tibetan]

Ethnicity

tibetan people

History

Origin

c. 650

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan

Standard Forms

Standard Tibetan

Language Position

Rank: 27 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Tibetan Sign Language

Scope

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bod

ISO 639 2/B

tib

ISO 639 3

bod

ISO 639 6

bod

Glottocode

tibe1272

Linguasphere

No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Tibetan

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Tibetan Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Tibetan Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Tibetan. Tibetan phonology gives Tibetan vowels and Tibetan consonants. There are 5 vowels and 30 consonants in Tibetan language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Tibetan is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Tibetan language is given in detail in this section.

All Tibetan countries

Want to explore all Tibetan countries? About Tibetan language serves you with all Tibetan Speaking Countries. Countries that use Tibetan as official language are called as Tibetan countries.

Countries that use Tibetan as their National Language are: Nepal, Tibet.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Tibetan as second language are: Tibetan is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Tibetan greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Tibetan Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Tibetan language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Tibetan language.Learn Tibetan greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank you: ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Good Morning: སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Good Evening: དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon: ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།

All Tibetan Language Codes

Get to know all Tibetan language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Tibetan Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.