Countries
China, Nepal
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Central Hindi Directorate
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3544
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3033
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
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)
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Khariboli
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Marwari
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Bundeli
Where They Speak
China
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
621
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million380.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %4.70 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
tibétain
hindi
German Name
Tibetisch
Hindi
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Hindustani people
Origin
c. 650
7th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Hindi
Language Position
295
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
hin
ISO 639 2/B
tib
hin
ISO 639 3
bod
hin
ISO 639 6
bod
hins
Glottocode
tibe1272
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic