Countries
China, Nepal
Andorra, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Latin Union, Spain, Valencian Community
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Andorra, France, Italy, Spain
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Spain
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Aragon, France, Italy, Spain
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, 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.
- Catalan is 6th most largely spoken Romance language.
- Catalan went through a golden age in low middle ages, reaching a peak of maturity and cultural richness.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Spanish Language, Occitan Language, Italian Language, French Language
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3527
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3023
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hola
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Gràcies
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Com estàs?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Bona nit
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Bona nit
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Bona tarda
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Bon dia
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sisplau
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Perdó!
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Adéu
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
T'estimo
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dispensi!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Caló
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
France, Portugal, Spain
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00440,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Valencian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Spain
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.002,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Ribagorçan
Where They Speak
China
Spain
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
68
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million9.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million4.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
català
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Català, Catalán, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, Catalonian, Valencian
French Name
tibétain
catalan; valencien
German Name
Tibetisch
Katalanisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[kətəˈɫa] (EC) ~ [kataˈɫa] (WC)
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Catalan people
Origin
c. 650
c. 1028
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Romance
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Catalan
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Catalan, Standard Valencian
Language Position
2932
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Catalan
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ca
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
cat
ISO 639 2/B
tib
cat
ISO 639 3
bod
cat
ISO 639 6
bod
cat
Glottocode
tibe1272
stan1289
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-