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Mossi and Tibetan


Tibetan and Mossi


Countries

Countries
Burkina Faso  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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
-  
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

Alphabets in
Mossi-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
5  
2

How Many Consonants
16  
6
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
10
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Burkina Faso  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Saremde  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Burkina Faso  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Taolende  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Burkina Faso  
China  

How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00  
33
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.60 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.11 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
7.60 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
37  
34
29  
27

Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

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
-  
-  

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All Mossi and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Mossi and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Mossi and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Mossi are spoken in different Mossi Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Mossi vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Mossi dialects include: Ouapadoupou, Saremde. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Mossi and Tibetan Speaking population

Mossi and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Mossi and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Mossi and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Mossi language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Mossi and Tibetan on Mossi vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Mossi and Tibetan Language Codes

Mossi and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Mossi and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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