Countries
China, Nepal
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
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
Not Available
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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Showa
Where They Speak
China
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
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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
Not Available
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Amharas
Origin
c. 650
13th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Semitic
Branch
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Ethiopic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Amharic
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-ACB-a
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional
All Tibetan and Amharic 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 Amharic dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Amharic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Amharic Dialects are spoken in different Amharic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Amharic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Amharic dialects include: Gondar , Gojjami. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Amharic Speaking population
Tibetan and Amharic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Amharic languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Amharic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 %. 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 Amharic on Tibetan vs Amharic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Amharic Language Codes
Tibetan and Amharic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Amharic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.