Countries
Nigeria
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
- 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
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4435
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3230
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
gode ku
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
yaya dai
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
mai kyau dare
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
barka da yamma
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Don Allah
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
yi hakuri
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
sai anjima
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ina son ku
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
gafara dai
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ghana
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Niger
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Daragaram
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Niger
China
How Many People Speak
50.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
206
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
50.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.52 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
35.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
haoussa
tibétain
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
tibetan people
Origin
14
c. 650
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Hausa
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
3429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ha
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
bod
ISO 639 2/B
hau
tib
ISO 639 3
hau
bod
ISO 639 6
hau
bod
Glottocode
haus1257
tibe1272
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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