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Georgian and Tibetan


Tibetan and Georgian


Countries

Countries
Georgia  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
  • Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
  • 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
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Anatolian Languages  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
28  
18
30  
20

Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
80,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Kartlian  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Kartli  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Pshavian  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Pshavi  
China  

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00  
40
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
20  
18
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
4.30 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.64 %  
26
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
4.30 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
4.00 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
ქართული ენა  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
géorgien  
tibétain  

German Name
Georgisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Georgians  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
5th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Kartvelian Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Southern  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Modern Georgian  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
120  
99+
29  
27

Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
-  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
ka  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
kat  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
geo  
tib  

ISO 639 3
kat  
bod  

ISO 639 6
kat  
bod  

Glottocode
nucl1302  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
-  

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

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Georgian and Tibetan Speaking population

Georgian and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Georgian and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Georgian and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Georgian language is 0.64 % 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 Georgian and Tibetan on Georgian vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Georgian and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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