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Tibetan and Afrikaans


Afrikaans and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
South Africa   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

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
Not Available   
Dutch Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Dutch Language   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
32   
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
15   
12

How Many Consonants
30   
20
17   
7

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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)   
Not Available   

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   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Kaapse Afrikaans   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Not Available   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Oranjeriverafrikaans   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Not Available   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Baster Afrikaans   

Where They Speak
China   
Namibia   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
19.00 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
7.10 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
10.30 million   
22

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
Not Available   
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Afrikaners   

History

Origin
c. 650   
17th Century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Germanic   

Branch
Not Available   
Western   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Standard Afrikaans   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

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
Not Available   
afrs   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
afri1274   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
52-ACB-ba   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Analytic   

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All Tibetan and Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Afrikaans Speaking population

Tibetan and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is Not Available. 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 Afrikaans on Tibetan vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Afrikaans Language Codes

Tibetan and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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