Countries
Burma
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
-
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu 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
Kinyarwanda Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2135
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1930
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Bwakeye
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Urakoze
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Ndagusavye
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Ndasubiza
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
N’agasaga
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ha
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
990,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Shubi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Tanzania
China
How Many People Speak
153,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
8.80 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.80 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
íkiRǔndi
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
rundi
tibétain
German Name
Kirundi
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
tibetan people
Origin
1500
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
8629
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
rn
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
bod
ISO 639 2/B
run
tib
ISO 639 3
run
bod
ISO 639 6
run
bod
Glottocode
rund1242
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-