Countries
Burkina Faso
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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
Dagbani Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
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
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kia ora
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Laafi bala
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Ne y yungo
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
ne y zabre
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
gafare
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
gafare
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Y gafare
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saremde
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Taolende
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
China
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.60 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.60 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Mosse
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
moré
tibétain
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Mossi
tibetan people
Origin
11th Century AD
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Mossi
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
3729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data Available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
bod
ISO 639 2/B
mos
tib
ISO 639 3
mos
bod
ISO 639 6
mos
bod
Glottocode
moss1236
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-