Countries
China, Nepal
South Africa
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
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Dutch Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
-
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
-
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
China
Namibia
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
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)
Glottocode
tibe1272
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB-ba
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic
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.
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 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 %. 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.