Countries
Japan
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9935
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1430
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kagawa
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
kansai
China
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
128.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
japonais
tibétain
German Name
Japanisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
tibetan people
Origin
1185
c. 650
Language Family
Japonic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
829
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ja
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
bod
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
tib
ISO 639 3
jpn
bod
ISO 639 6
jpn
bod
Glottocode
nucl1643
tibe1272
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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