Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
72
0
46
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National Language
Germany
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Albanian Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
930
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
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Danke
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
guten Abend
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
guten Morgen
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
bitte
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Verzeihung
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Tschüs
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Switzerland
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Swabian German
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Germany
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
820,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Texas German
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Texas
China
How Many People Speak
6,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
286
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
229.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.39 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
101.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
128.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Deutsch
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
allemand
tibétain
German Name
Deutsch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Germans
tibetan people
Origin
6th Century AD
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Western
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
de
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
bod
ISO 639 2/B
ger
tib
ISO 639 3
deu
bod
ISO 639 6
deus
bod
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
tibe1272
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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