Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
- 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
- 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
Assamese and Oriya
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5135
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
115
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4030
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Chakma
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
330,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hajong
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
71,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rarhi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
India
China
How Many People Speak
230,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
256
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
215.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
3.11 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
196.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
19.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
bengali
tibétain
German Name
Bengali
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbeŋɡali]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
tibetan people
Origin
1000–1200 CE
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Bengali
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Bengali
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
bn
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ben
bod
ISO 639 2/B
ben
tib
ISO 639 3
ben
bod
ISO 639 6
ben
bod
Glottocode
beng1280
tibe1272
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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