Countries
India
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- 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
Bengali and Oriya
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
115
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4130
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
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
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
nomoskaar
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
subhoraattri
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
suprobhaat
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
anugroha kori
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
biḍai
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Western Assam
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Assam
China
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
15.30 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
15.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
15.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
assamais
tibétain
German Name
Assamesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
tibetan people
Origin
7th century A.D
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Assamese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
6529
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
as
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
bod
ISO 639 2/B
asm
tib
ISO 639 3
asm
bod
ISO 639 6
asm
bod
Glottocode
assa1263
tibe1272
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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