Countries
South Africa
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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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
Alphabets
3235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1730
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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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
-
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Namibia
China
How Many People Speak
7.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
19.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.10 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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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
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
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
bod
Glottocode
afri1274
tibe1272
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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