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Countries

Countries

Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
China, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

332
0 46
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National Language

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Nepal, Tibet

Second Language

India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia

Minority Language

South Africa
China, India, Nepal

Regulated By

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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language

Interesting Facts

  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  • 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages

Derived From

Latin
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2635
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2130
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

72
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

6 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)

Thank You

Thank you
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)

How Are You?

How are you?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)

Good Night

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)

Good Evening

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།

Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།

Good Morning

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

Please

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.

Sorry

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)

Bye

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)

I Love You

I love you
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)

Excuse Me

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།

Dialects

Dialect 1

American English
Central Tibetan

Where They Speak

United States of America
China, India, Nepal

How Many People Speak

225,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hiberno-English
Khams Tibetan

Where They Speak

Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Bhutan, China

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.001,400,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Welsh English
Amdo Tibetan

Where They Speak

United Kingdom
China

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.001,800,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1886
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1,200.00 million1.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

5.43 %0.05 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

400.00 million1.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

400.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

English
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)

Alternative Names

English
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang

French Name

anglais
tibétain

German Name

Englisch
Tibetisch

Pronunciation

/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
[tibetan]

Ethnicity

English people
tibetan people

History

Origin

5th Century AD
c. 650

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

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Tibeto-Burman

Branch

-
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan

Standard Forms

Standard English
Standard Tibetan

Language Position

329
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed English
Tibetan Sign Language

Scope

Individual
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Code

ISO 639 1

en
bo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eng
bod

ISO 639 2/B

eng
tib

ISO 639 3

eng
bod

ISO 639 6

engs
bod

Glottocode

stan1293
tibe1272

Linguasphere

52-ABA
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Types of Language

Language Type

Living
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Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
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English and Tibetan Alphabets

English and Tibetan Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in English and Tibetan. In English Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Tibetan Alphabets there are 35 letters. To learn English and Tibetan languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of English and Tibetan languages. The English phonology consist English vowels and English consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at English greetings vs Tibetan greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether English and Tibetan are Most Spoken Languages.

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

English and Tibetan Speaking population

English and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which English and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of English and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 % 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 English and Tibetan on English vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

English and Tibetan Language Codes

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