Countries
Countries
China, Nepal
East Asia, European Union, South America
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
East Asia, European Union
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, South America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Akademio de Esperanto
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 most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Latin and Italian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3532
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3027
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
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)
Halo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Dankon
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kiel vi sanas?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Bonan nokton
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Bonan vesperon
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Bonan posttagmezon
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Bonan matenon
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Mi petas
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Mi bedaŭras!
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Ĝis poste
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Mi amas vin
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Pardonu!
Dialects
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Not present
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Not present
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China
Not present
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.002,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
60
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million2.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.20 million0.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Esperanto
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
French Name
tibétain
espéranto
German Name
Tibetisch
Esperanto
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[espeˈranto]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Esperanto speakers
History
Origin
c. 650
1887
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Esperanto
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Esperanto
Language Position
2933
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signuno
Scope
-
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
bo
eo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
epo
ISO 639 2/B
tib
epo
ISO 639 3
bod
epo
ISO 639 6
bod
epo
Glottocode
tibe1272
espe1235
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Constructed
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative