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Chinese and Tibetan


Tibetan and Chinese


Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
5   
10
2   
13

National Language
China, Taiwan   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Republic of Brazil   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
  • 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
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Derived From
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
Chinese.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
26   
8
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24   
19
5   
2

How Many Consonants
23   
13
30   
20

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks   
13
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
请 (Qǐng)   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mandarin   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00   
1
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Wu   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
China, United States of America   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00   
1
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Yue   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam   
China   

How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00   
2
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
10   
10
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million   
2
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
16.00 %   
2
Not Available   

Native Speakers
873.00 million   
1
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
178.00 million   
3
Not Available   

Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
chinois   
tibétain   

German Name
Chinesisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Han   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
1250 BC   
c. 650   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Standard Chinese   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
1   
1
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
zh   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
zho   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
chi   
tib   

ISO 639 3
zho   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
sini1245   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
79-AAA   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

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

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Chinese and Tibetan Speaking population

Chinese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % 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 Chinese and Tibetan on Chinese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chinese and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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