Countries
China, Nepal
Haiti
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Haiti
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Central America, North America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Cuba
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
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.
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
French Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3529
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Bonjou
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Mèsi
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kijan ou yé?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Bon nwit
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Bonswa
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Bon apre-midi
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Bon apre-midi
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Souple
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Dezole
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Babay
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Mwen renmen w
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Eskize m
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Cap-Haitien
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Central Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Port-au-Prince
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Southern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
China
Cayes
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0012,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million9.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.15 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million9.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Kreyòl ayisyen
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
French Name
tibétain
haïtien; créole haïtien
German Name
Tibetisch
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[kɣejɔl]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Haitians
Origin
c. 650
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Haitian Creole
Language Position
2999
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Langue des Signes Haïtienne (LSH)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ht
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
hat
ISO 639 2/B
tib
hat
ISO 639 3
bod
hat
ISO 639 6
bod
hat
Glottocode
tibe1272
hait1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
51-AAC-cb
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
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