Countries
Malaysia, Mauritius, Puducherry, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
62
0
46
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National Language
Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, kerala, Puducherry
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Canada, Malaysia, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Official language Commission of Government of Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur Tamil University
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Tamil is the oldest language in the world. Tamil was spoken in South India more than 5000 years ago.
- The first legally recognized Classical Language of India is Tamil.
- 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
Malayalam
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
24735
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1830
9
60
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Scripts
Tamil
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
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
வணக்கம் (Vanakkam)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
நன்றி (Naṉṟi)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
நீங்கள் எப்படி இருக்கிறீர்கள்? (Nīṅkaḷ eppaṭi irukkiṟīrkaḷ?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
நல்ல இரவு (Good night) / irravu vanakkam (Good night)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
நல்ல மாலை (Nalla mālai)/ மாலை (irravu vanakkam)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
பிற்பகல் வணக்கம் (perpagal vanakkam)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
காலை வணக்கம் (Kaalai Vanakkam)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
தயவு (Tayavu)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
மன்னிக்கவும் (Maṉṉikkavum)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
சென்று வருகிறேன் (Sendru Varukiren)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
நான் உன்னை காதலிக்கிறேன் (Naan Unnai Kadalikiren)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
என்னை மன்னியுங்கள் (Eṉṉai maṉṉiyuṅkaḷ)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Kongu
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kongu
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madurai Tamil
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Madurai, South Tamil Nadu
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tirunelveli Tamil
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Tamil Nadu, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli
China
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
106
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
78.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.06 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
70.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
8.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
தமிழ்
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Damulian, Tamal, Tamalsan, Tambul, Tamili
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
tamoul
tibétain
German Name
Tamil
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[t̪ɐmɨɻ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Tamil people or Tamilans
tibetan people
Origin
300 BC
c. 650
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tamil and Middle Tamil
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Tamil
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
1829
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tamil
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ta
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tam
bod
ISO 639 2/B
tam
tib
ISO 639 3
tam
bod
ISO 639 6
tam
bod
Glottocode
tami1289, oldt1248
tibe1272
Linguasphere
tami1289
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-