Countries
China, Nepal
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
-
Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3521
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3016
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hoy
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Salamat
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Maayong Buntag
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Palihug
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ikasubo ko
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Babay
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Boholano
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bohol
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
North Kana
Where They Speak
China
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Visayan
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
tibétain
cebuano
German Name
Tibetisch
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Cebuano people
Origin
c. 650
16th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
2962
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
tib
ceb
ISO 639 3
bod
ceb
ISO 639 6
bod
ceb
Glottocode
tibe1272
cebu1242
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-