Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
30,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Olonets
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Novgorod
China
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
136
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Russki
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
russe
tibétain
German Name
Russisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Russians
tibetan people
Origin
1000 AD
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ru
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
bod
ISO 639 2/B
rus
tib
ISO 639 3
rus
bod
ISO 639 6
rus
bod
Glottocode
russ1263
tibe1272
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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