Countries
European Union, Lithuania
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
- 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
Latvian
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2030
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
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Ačiū
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Labanakt
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Labas rytas
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Prašom
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
atsiprašau
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Ate
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Lithuania
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Lithuania
China
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
106
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
3.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
lituanien
tibétain
German Name
Litauisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
tibetan people
Origin
c. 1503
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
4429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
lt
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
bod
ISO 639 2/B
lit
tib
ISO 639 3
lit
bod
ISO 639 6
lit
bod
Glottocode
lith1251
tibe1272
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-