Countries
South Africa
China, Nepal
National Language
South Africa
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- 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
Dutch Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
hallo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Dankie
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
goeie nag
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
goeie more
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
asseblief
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
jammer
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Totsiens
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
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China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
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Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Namibia
China
Native Name
Afrikaans
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
afrikaans
tibétain
German Name
Afrikaans
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
tibetan people
Origin
17th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
afri1274
tibe1272
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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All Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Afrikaans and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Afrikaans are spoken in different Afrikaans Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Afrikaans vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans, Oranjeriverafrikaans. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Afrikaans and Tibetan Speaking population
Afrikaans and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. 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 Afrikaans and Tibetan on Afrikaans vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Afrikaans and Tibetan Language Codes
Afrikaans and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Afrikaans and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.