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Tibetan and Basque


Basque and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
27  
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
21  
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
88 weeks  
19

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Navarro-Lapurdian  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
France  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
68,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Souletin  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
France, Soule, Spain  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
8,700.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Biscayan  

Where They Speak
China  
Spain  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
750,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
7.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.12 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
7.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
0.70 million  
99+

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  

History

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
29  
27
30  
28

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Basque Sign Language  

Scope
-  
-  

Code

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  

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All Tibetan and Basque 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 Basque dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Basque language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Basque Dialects are spoken in different Basque speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Basque Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Basque dialects include: Navarro-Lapurdian , Souletin. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Basque Speaking population

Tibetan and Basque speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Basque languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Basque Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 %. 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 Basque on Tibetan vs Basque where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Basque Language Codes

Tibetan and Basque language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Basque Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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