Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
China, Nepal
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
Japanese and Korean Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Wu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Yue
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
China
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
chinois
tibétain
German Name
Chinesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Han
tibetan people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
sini1245
tibe1272
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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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 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 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.