Countries
China, Nepal
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
524
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3023
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Mandarin
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Wu
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Yue
Where They Speak
China
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
tibétain
chinois
German Name
Tibetisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Han
Origin
c. 650
1250 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Chinese
Language Position
291
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
zho
ISO 639 2/B
tib
chi
ISO 639 3
bod
zho
ISO 639 6
bod
zho
Glottocode
tibe1272
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating