Countries
Countries
Andorra, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Latin Union, Spain, Valencian Community
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
62
0
46
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National Language
Andorra, France, Italy, Spain
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Spain
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Aragon, France, Italy, Spain
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, National Languages Committee
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Catalan is 6th most largely spoken Romance language.
- Catalan went through a golden age in low middle ages, reaching a peak of maturity and cultural richness.
- 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 Language, Occitan Language, Italian Language, French Language
Not Available
Derived From
Latin
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2735
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2330
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Hola
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Gràcies
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Com estàs?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Bona nit
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Bona nit
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Bona tarda
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Bon dia
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Sisplau
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Perdó!
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Adéu
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
T'estimo
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Dispensi!
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialects
Dialect 1
Caló
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
France, Portugal, Spain
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
440,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Valencian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Spain
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
2,400,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Ribagorçan
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Spain
China
How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
9.20 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
NANA
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
4.10 million1.20 million
0.13
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.10 millionNA
0.01
400
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Native Name
català
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Català, Catalán, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, Catalonian, Valencian
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
catalan; valencien
tibétain
German Name
Katalanisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[kətəˈɫa] (EC) ~ [kataˈɫa] (WC)
Not Available
Ethnicity
Catalan people
tibetan people
History
Origin
c. 1028
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Romance
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Catalan
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Catalan, Standard Valencian
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
NANA
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Catalan
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
Code
ISO 639 1
ca
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cat
bod
ISO 639 2/B
cat
tib
ISO 639 3
cat
bod
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1289
tibe1272
Linguasphere
51-AAA-e
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available