Countries
China, Nepal
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
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.
- Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
- 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Assamese and Oriya
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3551
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3040
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
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)
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Chakma
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bangladesh, Burma, India
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00330,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hajong
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bangladesh, India
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0071,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Rarhi
Where They Speak
China
India
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00230,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
625
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million215.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %3.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million196.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million19.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
French Name
tibétain
bengali
German Name
Tibetisch
Bengali
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈbeŋɡali]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Origin
c. 650
1000–1200 CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Bengali
Language Position
294
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Bengali
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
bn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ben
ISO 639 2/B
tib
ben
ISO 639 3
bod
ben
ISO 639 6
bod
ben
Glottocode
tibe1272
beng1280
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAF-u
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-