Countries
Philippines
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Commission on the Filipino Language
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
- 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
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2030
9
60
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Scripts
Ilokano Braille, Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kablaaw
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Agyamanak
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Kumusta?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Naimbag a rabii
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Naimbag a sardam
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Naimbag a malem
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Naimbag a bigat
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
mangngegda
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Agpakawanak
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Pakada
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ayayatenka
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Maawan-dayawen
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Balangao
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Philippines
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
21,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bontoc
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Philippines
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
41,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not present
China
How Many People Speak
8,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
26
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
9.10 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
9.10 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ilokano
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Ilokano, Iloko
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
ilocano
tibétain
German Name
Ilokano-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[iːloˈkɑno]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Ilocano people
tibetan people
Origin
18th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Ilocano
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
9429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ilocano Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ilo
bod
ISO 639 2/B
ilo
tib
ISO 639 3
ilo
bod
ISO 639 6
ilo
bod
Glottocode
ilok1237
tibe1272
Linguasphere
31-CBA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-