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
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
Not Available
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
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Derived From
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Latin
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
American English
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
United States of America
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hiberno-English
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Welsh English
Where They Speak
China
United Kingdom
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
English
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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French Name
tibétain
anglais
German Name
Tibetisch
Englisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Not Available
Origin
c. 650
5th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard English
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed English
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
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engs
Glottocode
tibe1272
stan1293
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ABA
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic