Countries
India
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
-
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3035
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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
Henda ho
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Adi Johar
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Boge Ninda
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
দয়া করে
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
দুঃখিত
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Hariau
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Mahali
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
India
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
16
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
6.30 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
6.30 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
santal
tibétain
German Name
Santali
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
tibetan people
Origin
20th century
c. 650
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Santali
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
4129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
bod
ISO 639 2/B
sat
tib
ISO 639 3
sat
bod
ISO 639 6
sat
bod
Glottocode
sant1410
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-