Countries
India
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
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
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Prakrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3630
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Not present
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
140,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
140,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
140,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
06
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
14.10 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
sanskrit
tibétain
German Name
Sanskrit
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
tibetan people
Origin
2000 B.C.
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sa
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
bod
ISO 639 2/B
san
tib
ISO 639 3
san
bod
ISO 639 6
san
bod
Glottocode
sans1269
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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