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
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
Not Available
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
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Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
American English
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Welsh English
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
English
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
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Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
anglais
tibétain
German Name
Englisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
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Ethnicity
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tibetan people
Origin
5th Century AD
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard English
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed English
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
engs
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Glottocode
stan1293
tibe1272
Linguasphere
52-ABA
No data Available
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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