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Catalan and Tibetan


Tibetan and Catalan


Countries

Countries
Andorra, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Latin Union, Spain, Valencian Community  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
6  
9
2  
13

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  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Latin  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Catalan-Alpahabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
27  
9
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
23  
13
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

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
440,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Valencian  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Spain  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
2,400,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Ribagorçan  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Spain  
China  

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00  
40
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
9.20 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.12 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
4.10 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
5.10 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

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)  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Catalan people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
c. 1028  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Romance  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Catalan  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Catalan, Standard Valencian  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
32  
30
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Catalan  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

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
cat  
bod  

Glottocode
stan1289  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
51-AAA-e  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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All Catalan 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 Catalan and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Catalan and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Catalan are spoken in different Catalan Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Catalan vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Catalan dialects include: Caló, Valencian. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Catalan and Tibetan Speaking population

Catalan and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Catalan and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Catalan and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Catalan language is 0.12 % 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 Catalan and Tibetan on Catalan vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Catalan and Tibetan Language Codes

Catalan and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Catalan and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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