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Tibetan and Bengali


Bengali and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

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

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

Alphabets
35  
17
51  
30

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
11  
8

How Many Consonants
30  
20
40  
29

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
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Chakma  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Bangladesh, Burma, India  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
330,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Hajong  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Bangladesh, India  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
71,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Rarhi  

Where They Speak
China  
India  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
230,000,000.00  
1

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
25  
21

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
215.00 million  
9

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
3.11 %  
8

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
196.00 million  
7

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
19.00 million  
31

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)  

History

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
29  
27
4  
4

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Bengali  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

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
-  
-  

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

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Tibetan and Bengali Speaking population

Tibetan and Bengali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Bengali languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Bengali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Bengali language is 3.11 %. 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 Bengali on Tibetan vs Bengali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Bengali Language Codes

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

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