Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2835
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2030
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
102
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
谢谢
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
你好吗？
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
晚安
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
晚上好
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
下午好
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
早上好
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
请
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
遗憾
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
再见
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
我爱你
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
原谅我
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
China
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
52.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
cantonais
tibétain
German Name
Kantonesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
tibetan people
Origin
17th century
c. 650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
bod
ISO 639 2/B
yue
tib
ISO 639 3
No data available
bod
ISO 639 6
yue
bod
Glottocode
cant1236
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-