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Tibetan and Bodo


Bodo and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Assam, India  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Assam, India  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
-  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
-  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
-  

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.
  
  • In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
  • Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
45  
25

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
20  
17

How Many Consonants
30  
20
25  
15

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
34 weeks  
12

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
नमस्कार  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
धन्यवाद  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Nungni khabora ma?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
बोडो  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
अन्धानि बार  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
अननानै (Onnanwi)  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
दु:खित  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Lwrbw  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
दु:खित  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
1,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
1,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect  

Where They Speak
China  
Assam, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
1,300,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.01 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
0.60 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
1.50 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
बड़ो (boṛo)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci  

French Name
tibétain  
bodo  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Bodo  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[bɔɽo]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1913  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
-  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
-  

Language Position
29  
27
30  
28

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Bodo  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
br  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
brx  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
brx  

ISO 639 3
bod  
brx  

ISO 639 6
bod  
brx  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
bodo1269  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
59-AAB  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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All Tibetan and Bodo 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 Bodo dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Bodo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Bodo Dialects are spoken in different Bodo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Bodo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Bodo dialects include: (Sønabari) Western Boro dialect , (Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Bodo Speaking population

Tibetan and Bodo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Bodo languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Bodo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Bodo language is 0.01 %. 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 Bodo on Tibetan vs Bodo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Bodo Language Codes

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

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