Countries
China, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3552
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3041
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali
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)
nomoskaar
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
subhoraattri
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
subha abeli
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
suprobhaat
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
anugroha kori
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
biḍai
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
China
Assam
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million15.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million15.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
tibétain
assamais
German Name
Tibetisch
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Assamese people
Origin
c. 650
7th century A.D
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Assamese
Language Position
2965
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Assamese
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
asm
ISO 639 2/B
tib
asm
ISO 639 3
bod
asm
ISO 639 6
bod
asm
Glottocode
tibe1272
assa1263
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAF-w
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-