Countries
China, Nepal
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Ethiopia
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
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3031
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Ethiopic
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)
Selam
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
i'bakwon
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
aznallehu
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
tschao
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Gondar
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Gondar
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Showa
Where They Speak
China
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
65
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
tibétain
amharique
German Name
Tibetisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Amharas
Origin
c. 650
13th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Amharic
Language Position
2955
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
amh
ISO 639 2/B
tib
amh
ISO 639 3
bod
amh
ISO 639 6
bod
amh
Glottocode
tibe1272
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional