Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
China, Nepal
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
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Kimrima
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Kimgao
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kilwa
China
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
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
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Glottocode
swah1254
tibe1272
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Swahili 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 Swahili and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Swahili and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swahili are spoken in different Swahili Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swahili vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja, Kimrima. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Swahili and Tibetan Speaking population
Swahili and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % 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 Swahili and Tibetan on Swahili vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Swahili and Tibetan Language Codes
Swahili and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.