Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Somalia
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
-
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- 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
Somali Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3435
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2430
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
akkam
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Galatoomi
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Maaloo
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
naa dhiisi
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Nagayattii!
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Borana
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Orma
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kenya
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
66,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wata
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kenya
China
How Many People Speak
13,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
176
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
25.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.36 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
24.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Afaan Oromo
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
galla
tibétain
German Name
Galla-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ɔrɔmɔ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Oromos
tibetan people
Origin
16
c. 650
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
9129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Oromo Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
om
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
orm
bod
ISO 639 2/B
orm
tib
ISO 639 3
orm
bod
ISO 639 6
orm
bod
Glottocode
nucl1736
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-