Countries
Philippines
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Philippines
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
- 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
Hiligaynon Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Island of Cebu
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2135
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1630
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
3 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hoy
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Salamat
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Maayong Gabii
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Maayong Gabii
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Maayong Buntag
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Palihug
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Ikasubo ko
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Babay
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Ekskyus mi
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Boholano
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bohol
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Southern Kana
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
southern Leyte
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
North Kana
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
China
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
21.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
14.50 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Visayan
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
cebuano
tibétain
German Name
Cebuano
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[sɛbuˈɑno]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Cebuano people
tibetan people
Origin
16th century
c. 650
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Cebuano
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
6229
1
120
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Signed Forms
Cebuano Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data Available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ceb
bod
ISO 639 2/B
ceb
tib
ISO 639 3
ceb
bod
ISO 639 6
ceb
bod
Glottocode
cebu1242
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-