Countries
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
62
0
46
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National Language
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
South America
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
- One of the most widely spoken indigenous language in the America is Quechua.
- Quechua language has borrowed many words from Spanish.
- 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
Aymara and Guarani Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3135
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2630
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Rimaykullayki
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Solpayki
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Allillanchu
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Allin tuta
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Wuynas nuchis
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Wuynas tardis
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Wuynus diyas
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
jamuspa
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Pampachaykuway
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Kuyayki
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Pampachaway
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Ancash
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Peru
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
920,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Huánuco
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Peru
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
190,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yaru
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Peru
China
How Many People Speak
150,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
106
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
8.90 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.90 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Qhichwa
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
North La Paz Quechua
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
quechua
tibétain
German Name
Quechua-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈketʃwa]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Quechua
tibetan people
Origin
16th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Quechumaran Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Andean Equatorial
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Quechua
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Quechua
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
qu
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
que
bod
ISO 639 2/B
que
tib
ISO 639 3
que
bod
ISO 639 6
que
bod
Glottocode
quec1387
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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