Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
China, Nepal
National Language
France
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
- 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
Italian Language
Not Available
Derived From
Latin
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
bonjour
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Merci
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
bonne Nuit
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
bonsoir
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Bonjour
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
S'il vous plaît
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
désolé
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
au revoir
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Je t'aime
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
African French
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Africa
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
français
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Français
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
français
tibétain
German Name
Französisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
tibetan people
Origin
9th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Romance
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard French
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
fras
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1290
tibe1272
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
French and Tibetan Speaking population
French and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which French and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of French and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 % 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 French and Tibetan on French vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
French and Tibetan Language Codes
French and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. French and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.