Countries
China, Nepal
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
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Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
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Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
амритана
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Амарахь
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
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Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Bzyb
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Abkhazia
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Caucasus
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Sadz
Where They Speak
China
Turkey
Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
tibétain
abkhaze
German Name
Tibetisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Abkhaz people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Northwest Caucasian
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Abkhaz
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Abkhaz Sign Language
Glottocode
tibe1272
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Language Type
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Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative
All Tibetan and Abkhaz 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 Tibetan and Abkhaz dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Abkhaz language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Abkhaz Dialects are spoken in different Abkhaz speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Abkhaz Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Abkhaz dialects include: Bzyb , Abzhywa. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Abkhaz Speaking population
Tibetan and Abkhaz speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Abkhaz languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Abkhaz Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Abkhaz language is 0.01 %. 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 Tibetan and Abkhaz on Tibetan vs Abkhaz where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Abkhaz Language Codes
Tibetan and Abkhaz language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Abkhaz Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.