Countries
China, Nepal
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
27
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
-
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
309
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
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
hallo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Danke
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
guten Tag
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
guten Morgen
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
bitte
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Verzeihung
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Tschüs
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Swiss German
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Germany
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Texas German
Where They Speak
China
Texas
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
628
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million229.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %1.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million101.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
tibétain
allemand
German Name
Tibetisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Germans
Origin
c. 650
6th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
299
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
deu
ISO 639 2/B
tib
ger
ISO 639 3
bod
deu
ISO 639 6
bod
deus
Glottocode
tibe1272
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic