Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
- 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
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Latin
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2435
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1730
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, 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
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
αντίο (antío)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Greece
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,800.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Italy
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
50,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ukraine
China
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
256
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
tibétain
German Name
Neugriechisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
tibetan people
Origin
1500 BC
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
7429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
el
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
bod
ISO 639 2/B
gre
tib
ISO 639 3
ell
bod
ISO 639 6
ells
bod
Glottocode
gree1276
tibe1272
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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