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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   
Not Available   

Derived From
Latin   
Not Available   

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   
35
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Valencian   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Spain   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
2,400,000.00   
19
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Ribagorçan   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Spain   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
4.10 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
5.10 million   
28
Not Available   

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   

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   

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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 Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. 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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