Countries
China, Nepal
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
France, Spain
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages 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.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Spanish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3527
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kaixo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Zer moduz?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Gabon
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Egun on
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Mesedez
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Barkatu
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Agur
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
France
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Souletin
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.008,700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Biscayan
Where They Speak
China
Spain
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million7.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million7.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Euskara
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
tibétain
basque
German Name
Tibetisch
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Basque people
Origin
c. 650
c. 1000
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Basque
Language Position
2930
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Basque Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
bo
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
eus
ISO 639 2/B
tib
baq
ISO 639 3
bod
eus
ISO 639 6
bod
eus
Glottocode
tibe1272
basq1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
40-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative