Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
China, Nepal
National Language
Ethiopia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
- 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
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Selam
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Dehna dur
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
i'bakwon
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
aznallehu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
tschao
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Gondar
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Gondar
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Gojjami
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Showa
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
China
Native Name
አማርኛ
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
amharique
tibétain
German Name
Amharisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Amharas
tibetan people
Origin
13th century
c. 650
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Amharic
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
amha1245
tibe1272
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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All Amharic 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 Amharic and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Amharic and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Amharic are spoken in different Amharic Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Amharic vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Amharic dialects include: Gondar, Gojjami. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Amharic and Tibetan Speaking population
Amharic and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Amharic and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Amharic and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 % 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 Amharic and Tibetan on Amharic vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Amharic and Tibetan Language Codes
Amharic and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Amharic and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.