Countries
Zimbabwe
China, Nepal
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
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
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
- 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
Kalanga and Nambya 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
Mhoro
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Waita zvako
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Manheru
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Masikati
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Mangwanani
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Ndineurombo
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ndinokuda
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Karanga
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
China
Native Name
chiShona
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
shona
tibétain
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Shona people
tibetan people
Origin
20th century
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
core1255
tibe1272
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Shona 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 Shona and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Shona and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Shona are spoken in different Shona Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Shona vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Shona dialects include: Hwesa, Karanga. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Shona and Tibetan Speaking population
Shona and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Shona and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Shona and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 % 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 Shona and Tibetan on Shona vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Shona and Tibetan Language Codes
Shona and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Shona and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.