Countries
China, Nepal
India
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
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Western Assam
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
China
Assam
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
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Assamese
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Assamese
Glottocode
tibe1272
assa1263
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAF-w
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Assamese 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 Assamese dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Assamese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Assamese Dialects are spoken in different Assamese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Assamese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Assamese dialects include: Kamrupi , Goalpariya. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Assamese Speaking population
Tibetan and Assamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Assamese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Assamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 %. 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 Assamese on Tibetan vs Assamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Assamese Language Codes
Tibetan and Assamese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Assamese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.