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Tibetan and Hausa


Hausa and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Nigeria  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Gambia, Nigeria  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Nigeria  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Africa  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
-  

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.
  
  • Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
  • There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Yoruba and Igbo Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
44  
24

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
12  
9

How Many Consonants
30  
20
32  
22

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
yaya dai  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
mai kyau dare  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
barka da yamma  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
barka da rana  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
mai kyau safe  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Don Allah  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
yi hakuri  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
sai anjima  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Ina son ku  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Gaananci  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Ghana  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
50,000,000.00  
14

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Kurhwayanci  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Niger  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
150,000,000.00  
3

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Daragaram  

Where They Speak
China  
Niger  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
50.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
20  
18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
50.00 million  
28

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.52 %  
30

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
35.00 million  
27

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
15.00 million  
34

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa  

French Name
tibétain  
haoussa  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Haussa-Sprache  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[hàʊsà]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Hausa–Fulani people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
14  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Afro-Asiatic Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Chadic  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Hausa  

Language Position
29  
27
34  
32

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Hausa  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ha  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
hau  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
hau  

ISO 639 3
bod  
hau  

ISO 639 6
bod  
hau  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
haus1257  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
19-HAA-b  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Fusional  

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

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Tibetan and Hausa Speaking population

Tibetan and Hausa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Hausa languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Hausa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hausa language is 0.52 %. 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 Hausa on Tibetan vs Hausa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Hausa Language Codes

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

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