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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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Rank: 13 (Overall)
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Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Nepal
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese 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.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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48
Rank: 28 (Overall)
35
Rank: 17 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
30
Rank: 20 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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Rank: 5 (Overall)
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
कृपया
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doteli
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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790,000.00
Rank: 30 (Overall)
1,200,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
1,400,000.00
Rank: 23 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nepal
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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1,800,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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12
Rank: 12 (Overall)
6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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30.00 million
Rank: 36 (Overall)
1.20 million
Rank: 85 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
1.20 million
Rank: 80 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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5.00 million
Rank: 29 (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
népalais
tibétain
5.3.5 German Name
Nepali
Tibetisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
19 BC
c. 650
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
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7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ne
bo
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
nep
bod
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
nep
tib
7.3 ISO 639 3
npi
bod
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
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7.5 Glottocode
nepa1254
tibe1272
7.6 Linguasphere
12
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
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7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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Nepali and Tibetan Alphabets

Nepali and Tibetan Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Tibetan. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Tibetan Alphabets there are 35 letters. To learn Nepali and Tibetan languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Tibetan languages. The Nepali phonology consist Nepali vowels and Nepali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Nepali greetings vs Tibetan greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Tibetan are Most Spoken Languages.

All Nepali 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 Nepali and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Nepali and Tibetan Speaking population

Nepali and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. 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 Nepali and Tibetan on Nepali vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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