Countries
China, Nepal
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Thai and Lao Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3574
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
514
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3060
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
29
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)
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
zoo hmo
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
zoo tav su
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
thov
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Nyob zoo
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Kuv hlub koj
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
zam txim rau kuv
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Hmong Njua
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Laos
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00310,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hmong Daw
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
China
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Hmong Do
Where They Speak
China
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0031,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million4.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million3.70 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)
Hmong
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Mong
French Name
tibétain
hmong
German Name
Tibetisch
Miao-Sprachen
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[môŋ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Hmong people
Origin
c. 650
19
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Hmong
Language Position
2924
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Hmong Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
hmn
ISO 639 2/B
tib
hmn
ISO 639 3
bod
hmv
ISO 639 6
bod
hmn
Glottocode
tibe1272
firs1234
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
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Language Morphological Typology
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