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Afrikaans and Tibetan


Tibetan and Afrikaans


Countries

Countries
South Africa   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

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   
Not Available   

Derived From
Dutch Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
32   
14
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
15   
12
5   
2

How Many Consonants
17   
7
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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
Not Available   
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།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Not Available   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Not Available   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Namibia   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
3   
3
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
19.00 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
7.10 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
10.30 million   
22
Not Available   

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]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Afrikaners   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
17th Century   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Germanic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Western   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

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   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
af   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
afr   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
afr   
tib   

ISO 639 3
afr   
bod   

ISO 639 6
afrs   
Not Available   

Glottocode
afri1274   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic   
Not Available   

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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.

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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 Not Available 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 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.

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