Countries
Assam, India
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Assam, India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
-
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
- Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
- 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
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4535
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
205
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2530
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
34 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कार
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
धन्यवाद
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Nungni khabora ma?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
बोडो
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
अन्धानि बार
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
अननानै (Onnanwi)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
दु:खित
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Lwrbw
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
दु:खित
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Assam, India, Nepal
China
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.60 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.60 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
1.50 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
बड़ो (boṛo)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
bodo
tibétain
German Name
Bodo
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[bɔɽo]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)
tibetan people
Origin
1913
c. 650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
-
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
-
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
3029
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Bodo
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
br
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
brx
bod
ISO 639 2/B
brx
tib
ISO 639 3
brx
bod
ISO 639 6
brx
bod
Glottocode
bodo1269
tibe1272
Linguasphere
59-AAB
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-