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Akan and Tibetan


Tibetan and Akan


Countries

Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Ghana  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Africa  
Asia  

Minority Language
Benin, United States of America  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
  • Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
  
  • 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
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
21  
3
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
5  
2

How Many Consonants
16  
6
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
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
ete-sen  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
meda ase  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

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

Good Evening
maadwo  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
maaha  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
maakye  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
wae  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Kafra  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
bye  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
Me doכ wo  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Asante  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Ghana  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00  
39
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Akuapem  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Ghana  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00  
38
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Fante  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Ghana  
China  

How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.17 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
11.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
21.00 million  
29
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Akan  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Twi, Fante  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
akan  
tibétain  

German Name
Akan-Sprache  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Akan people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
15  
c. 650  

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Akan  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
104  
99+
29  
27

Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
ak  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
aka  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
aka  
tib  

ISO 639 3
aka  
bod  

ISO 639 6
aka  
bod  

Glottocode
akan1251  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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All Akan 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 Akan and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Akan and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Akan are spoken in different Akan Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Akan vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Akan dialects include: Asante, Akuapem. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Akan and Tibetan Speaking population

Akan and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Akan and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Akan and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Akan language is 0.17 % 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 Akan and Tibetan on Akan vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Akan and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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