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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
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1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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35
Rank: 17 (Overall)
26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
24
Rank: 19 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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30
Rank: 20 (Overall)
23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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1,200,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
960,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Wu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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1,400,000.00
Rank: 23 (Overall)
80,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Yue
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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1,800,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
60,000,000.00
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
10
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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1.20 million
Rank: 85 (Overall)
1,051.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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1.20 million
Rank: 80 (Overall)
873.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
178.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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5.3.4 French Name
tibétain
chinois
5.3.5 German Name
Tibetisch
Chinesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Han
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 650
1250 BC
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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Rank: 1 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
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Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
bo
zh
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
bod
zho
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
tib
chi
7.3 ISO 639 3
bod
zho
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
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7.5 Glottocode
tibe1272
sini1245
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
79-AAA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
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Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating

Tibetan and Chinese Alphabets

Tibetan and Chinese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Tibetan and Chinese. In Tibetan Alphabets there are 35 letters while in Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Tibetan and Chinese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Tibetan and Chinese languages. The Tibetan phonology consist Tibetan vowels and Tibetan consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Tibetan greetings vs Chinese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Tibetan and Chinese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Tibetan and Chinese 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 Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Tibetan and Chinese Speaking population

Tibetan and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. 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 Chinese on Tibetan vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Chinese Language Codes

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

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