Countries
Nigeria
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
- 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 Hausa Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2830
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
dalụ
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Biko
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Ndo
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Kachifo
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Enuani
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
24.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
206
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
25.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.09 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
24.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
igbo
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
igbo
tibétain
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
tibetan people
Origin
30th Century BC
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
5729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ig
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
bod
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
tib
ISO 639 3
ibo
bod
ISO 639 6
ibo
bod
Glottocode
nucl1417
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-