Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
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
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- 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
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2435
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Habari
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Asante
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Habari gani?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Usiku mwema
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
tafadhali
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
pole
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
nakupenda
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Samahani
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kimrima
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kimgao
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kilwa
China
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
126
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
150.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.42 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
15.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
75.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kiswahili
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
swahili
tibétain
German Name
Swahili
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[swaˈhili]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
tibetan people
Origin
6th century
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Bantu
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 1
sw
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swa
bod
ISO 639 2/B
swa
tib
ISO 639 3
swa
bod
ISO 639 6
swa
bod
Glottocode
swah1254
tibe1272
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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