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French and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
32  
3

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
France  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Africa, Canada  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française  

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.
  
  • French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
  • French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Italian Language  

Derived From
-  
Latin  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
6  
3

How Many Consonants
30  
20
20  
10

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
bonjour  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Merci  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Comment allez-vous?  

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
bonsoir  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
bon Après-Midi  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
S'il vous plaît  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
désolé  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
au revoir  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Je t'aime  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Quebec French  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
6,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
African French  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Africa  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
274,000,000.00  
1

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Swiss French  

Where They Speak
China  
Northeast France, Switzerland  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
25  
21

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
163.00 million  
11

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
1.12 %  
18

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
76.00 million  
13

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
87.00 million  
11

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
français  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Français  

French Name
tibétain  
français  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Französisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
French people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
9th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Romance  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Old French, Middle French and French  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Standard French  

Language Position
29  
27
13  
12

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
fr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
fra  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
fre  

ISO 639 3
bod  
fra  

ISO 639 6
bod  
fras  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
stan1290  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
51-AAA-i  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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

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Tibetan and French Speaking population

Tibetan and French speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and French languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and French Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 %. 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 French on Tibetan vs French where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and French Language Codes

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

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