Oromo and Tibetan
Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
China, Nepal
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
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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
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Orma
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kenya
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Wata
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kenya
China
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
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Oromo Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
nucl1736
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Oromo 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 Oromo and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Oromo and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Oromo are spoken in different Oromo Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Oromo vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Oromo dialects include: Borana, Orma. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Oromo and Tibetan Speaking population
Oromo and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Oromo and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Oromo and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 % 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 Oromo and Tibetan on Oromo vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Oromo and Tibetan Language Codes
Oromo and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Oromo and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.