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Countries

Countries

China, Nepal
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

233
0 46
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National Language

Nepal, Tibet
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

China, India, Nepal
South Africa

Regulated By

Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

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Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3526
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3021
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

27
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hello

Thank You

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Thank you

How Are You?

ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
How are you?

Good Night

གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Night

Good Evening

དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Good Morning

Please

thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Please

Sorry

ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Sorry

Bye

ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Bye

I Love You

ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
I love you

Excuse Me

དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Central Tibetan
American English

Where They Speak

China, India, Nepal
United States of America

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Khams Tibetan
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Bhutan, China
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

1,400,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Amdo Tibetan
Welsh English

Where They Speak

China
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

1,800,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

6188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.20 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.05 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.20 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
English

Alternative Names

Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
English

French Name

tibétain
anglais

German Name

Tibetisch
Englisch

Pronunciation

[tibetan]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

tibetan people
English people

History

Origin

c. 650
5th Century AD

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman
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Branch

-
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Standard Tibetan
Standard English

Language Position

293
1 120
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Signed Forms

Tibetan Sign Language
Signed English

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

bo
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bod
eng

ISO 639 2/B

tib
eng

ISO 639 3

bod
eng

ISO 639 6

bod
engs

Glottocode

tibe1272
stan1293

Linguasphere

No data Available
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Tibetan and English Alphabets

Tibetan and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Tibetan and English. In Tibetan Alphabets there are 35 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Tibetan and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Tibetan and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Tibetan and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Tibetan and English Speaking population

Tibetan and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and English languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Tibetan vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and English Language Codes

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