Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
East Asia, European Union
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
- 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
Latin and Italian Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2730
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
6 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Dankon
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Bonan nokton
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Bonan matenon
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Mi petas
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Ĝis poste
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Mi amas vin
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Pardonu!
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Not present
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not present
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not present
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not present
China
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
06
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
2.20 million1.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.20 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Esperanto
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
espéranto
tibétain
German Name
Esperanto
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Esperanto speakers
tibetan people
Origin
1887
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Esperanto
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
3329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signuno
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
eo
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
epo
bod
ISO 639 2/B
epo
tib
ISO 639 3
epo
bod
ISO 639 6
epo
bod
Glottocode
espe1235
tibe1272
Linguasphere
51-AAB-da
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Constructed
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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