Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
72
0
46
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National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
- 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
French and Portuguese Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2135
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1630
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
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ciao
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
grazie
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Come stai?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
buonanotte
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
buonasera
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
buongiorno
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Per Favore
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
scusate
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
arrivederci
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ti amo
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Scusami
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Romanesco
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Lazio
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Italian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tuscan
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
China
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
156
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
78.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.90 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
64.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
14.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Italiano
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Italiano
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
italien
tibétain
German Name
Italienisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Italians
tibetan people
Origin
960 BC
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Romance
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Italian
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2729
1
120
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Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
it
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ita
bod
ISO 639 2/B
ita
tib
ISO 639 3
ita
bod
ISO 639 6
itas
bod
Glottocode
ital1282
tibe1272
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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