Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
China, Nepal
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
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
China
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
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Tibetan Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 3
No data available
bod
Glottocode
cant1236
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Cantonese and Tibetan Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Tibetan Speaking population
Cantonese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Tibetan on Cantonese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Tibetan Language Codes
Cantonese and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.