Countries
China, Nepal
Czech Republic, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Czech Republic
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Institute of the Czech 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.
- The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3542
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
532
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3032
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ahoj
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
děkuji
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Jak se máš?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
dobrou noc
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
dobré odpoledne
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
dobré ráno
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
prosím
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
litovat
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
sbohem
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Miluji tě
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
promiňte
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Chod
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Chodsko, Bohemia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Lach
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0010,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Moravian
Where They Speak
China
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00108,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
613
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million11.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.15 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
čeština / český jazyk
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bohemian, Cestina
French Name
tibétain
tchèque
German Name
Tibetisch
Tschechisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Czechs
Origin
c. 650
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Czech
Language Position
2973
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Czech Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
cs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ces
ISO 639 2/B
tib
cze
ISO 639 3
bod
ces
ISO 639 6
bod
ces
Glottocode
tibe1272
czec1258
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-da
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic