Countries
China, Nepal
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Ghana
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Akan Orthography 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.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3521
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3016
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
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ete-sen
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
meda ase
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
maadwo
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
maadwo
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
maaha
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
maakye
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
wae
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Kafra
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Asante
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Akuapem
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Fante
Where They Speak
China
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million11.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.17 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Akan
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Twi, Fante
French Name
tibétain
akan
German Name
Tibetisch
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Akan people
Origin
c. 650
15
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Akan
Language Position
29104
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Akan Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
aka
ISO 639 2/B
tib
aka
ISO 639 3
bod
aka
ISO 639 6
bod
aka
Glottocode
tibe1272
akan1251
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-