Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
- Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic languages.
- 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
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2435
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1730
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
China
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
11.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.17 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
11.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
18.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
kazakh
tibétain
German Name
Kasachisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Kazahks
tibetan people
Origin
17th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Kazakh
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
9329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kazakh Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
kk
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kaz
bod
ISO 639 2/B
kaz
tib
ISO 639 3
kaz
bod
ISO 639 6
kaz
bod
Glottocode
kaza1248
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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