Countries
China, Nepal
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
20
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
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
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3543
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3034
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
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)
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00380,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
China
India
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
613
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million40.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.43 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million40.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
tibétain
bhojpuri
German Name
Tibetisch
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Bhojpuri speakers
Origin
c. 650
19th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Bhojpuri
Language Position
2937
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
bho
ISO 639 2/B
tib
bho
ISO 639 3
bod
bho
ISO 639 6
bod
bho
Glottocode
tibe1272
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAF-sa
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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