Countries
European Union, Ireland
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Ireland
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Ireland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
United Kingdom
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Foras na Gaeilge
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- In Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish 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
Scottish Gaelic and Welsh Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
1835
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1330
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
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Dia dhuit
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Go raibh maith agat
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Conas atá tú ?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Oíche mhaith
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Tráthnóna maith duit
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Tráthnóna maith duit
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Dia dhuit ar maidin
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
le do thoil
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Tá brón orm
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Slán
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Is breá liom thú
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Gabh mo leithscéal
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Connacht Irish
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Connacht
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
100,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Munster Irish
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Munster
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
150,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ulster Irish
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ulster
China
How Many People Speak
140,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.79 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.14 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.65 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
irlandais moyen
tibétain
German Name
Mittelirisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Irish people
tibetan people
Origin
c. 750
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Celtic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Goidelic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2529
1
120
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Signed Forms
Irish Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ga
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
gle
bod
ISO 639 2/B
gle
tib
ISO 639 3
gle
bod
ISO 639 6
gle
bod
Glottocode
iris1253
tibe1272
Linguasphere
50-AAA
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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