Countries
China, Nepal
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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
Commission on the Filipino 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.
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3532
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Ilokano Braille, Latin
Writing Direction
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)
Kablaaw
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Agyamanak
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kumusta?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Naimbag a rabii
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Naimbag a sardam
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Naimbag a malem
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Naimbag a bigat
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
mangngegda
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Agpakawanak
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Pakada
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ayayatenka
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Maawan-dayawen
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Balangao
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Philippines
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0021,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Bontoc
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Philippines
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0041,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China
Not present
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.008,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
62
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million9.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million9.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ilokano
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Ilokano, Iloko
French Name
tibétain
ilocano
German Name
Tibetisch
Ilokano-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[iːloˈkɑno]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Ilocano people
Origin
c. 650
18th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Ilocano
Language Position
2994
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Ilocano Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ilo
ISO 639 2/B
tib
ilo
ISO 639 3
bod
ilo
ISO 639 6
bod
ilo
Glottocode
tibe1272
ilok1237
Linguasphere
No data Available
31-CBA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-