Countries
China, Nepal
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3028
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
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)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Kartli
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Pshavian
Where They Speak
China
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
620
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
tibétain
géorgien
German Name
Tibetisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Georgians
Origin
c. 650
5th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Southern
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Georgian
Language Position
29120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
bo
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
kat
ISO 639 2/B
tib
geo
ISO 639 3
bod
kat
ISO 639 6
bod
kat
Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic