Countries
China, Nepal
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3532
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3017
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
hallo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Dankie
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
goeie nag
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Goeie middag
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
goeie more
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
asseblief
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
jammer
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Totsiens
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
-
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
China
Namibia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.20 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cape Dutch
French Name
tibétain
afrikaans
German Name
Tibetisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Afrikaners
Origin
c. 650
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
afr
ISO 639 2/B
tib
afr
ISO 639 3
bod
afr
ISO 639 6
bod
afrs
Glottocode
tibe1272
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic