Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
France, Spain
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
- 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
Spanish
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2735
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kaixo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Gabon
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Egun on
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Mesedez
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Barkatu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Agur
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Maite zaitut
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Barkatu
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
France
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
68,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Souletin
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
8,700.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Biscayan
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Spain
China
How Many People Speak
750,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million1.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.20 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Euskara
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
basque
tibétain
German Name
Baskisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[bɑːsk]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Basque people
tibetan people
Origin
c. 1000
c. 650
Language Family
Vasconic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Basque
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
3029
1
120
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Signed Forms
Basque Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
eu
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
eus
bod
ISO 639 2/B
baq
tib
ISO 639 3
eus
bod
ISO 639 6
eus
bod
Glottocode
basq1248
tibe1272
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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